Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Letter Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letter Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 51.88416, -9.48326
- SMR number
- KE093-027002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Within an enclosure (KE093-02701-) which is overgrown with trees and undergrowth. Numerous low grass-covered mounds and upright stone grave-markers are mostly concentrated in the W half of the interior of the enclosure. According to Dennehy (1997, 146), these markers are of sandstone with quartz veins and there are quartz pebbles scattered across the site. A larger rectangular grass-covered mound (3.4m E-W; 2m N-S; H 0.4m) occurs near the E end of the interior of the enclosure.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.