Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Garranes (Glanarought By., Ardea ED), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranes (Glanarought By., Ardea ED)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 51.77746, -9.72417
- SMR number
- KE109-008002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the NE quadrant of a possible rath (KE109-008001-). A rectangular area (14m N-S; 9m E-W), named 'Burial Ground' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map, is defined by the lower courses of a stone wall (T 1.2m; H 0.5m) on its S and W sides, by traces of a low bank on its N side and by a scarp (H 0.6m), the N half of which is stone-faced, on its E side. The W wall is covered by dense overgrowth. There is a tree-lined terrace (Wth 4m) outside the scarp at E. The interior slopes down to the E and graves are marked with uninscribed stone slabs, orientated N-S. The use of the burial ground as a ceallúnach (children's burial ground) is recorded by Dennehy (1997, 161) who also noted veins of quartz in the sandstone grave-markers.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.