Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killowen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killowen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 51.88395, -9.56834
- SMR number
- KE093-115002-
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
On the S side of a road c. 1 km NE of Kenmare town. A rectangular area (c. 70m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) bounded by a stone wall is named 'Burial Ground' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. The earliest gravestones noted date to the late 18th-century; it is still in use. The ruin of a Church of Ireland church (KE093-115001-) lies in the N half.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.