Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Greenane Islands, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenane Islands
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.86340, -9.66548
- SMR number
- KE092-051----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Illaunakilla is one of a group of islands near Templenoe that are collectively known as the Greenane Islands. The OSNB recorded an old burial ground here 'not used these three hundred years', and a second island, Carraig a tSagairt, situated NE of Illaunakilla, where priests used to 'celebrate mass in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries' (Templeno, 37). It was not possible to visit the island and the site is not remembered locally
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1017. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.