Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cill Urlaí, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Urlaí
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Calluragh Burial Ground (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 51.83962, -10.29878
- SMR number
- KE097-003----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Calluragh Burial Ground: Depicted on the first edition of the OS map as a small rectangular area, and marked only as ‘site of’ on the second edition, this site is preserved as a mound or platform of subrectangular plan. It averages .45m high above surrounding ground level and measures 6.9m N-S x 14.6m E-W in overall dimensions. Defined at N by a stony bank, its upper surface is littered with numerous stones, some of which are upright. A small slate slab, .2m high and .25m wide, has a rough cross rubbed onto one face. A nearby ogham stone (KE097-003004-) is reputed to have come from this site.
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. 1026. 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.