Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Fehanagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fehanagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeenagh Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 51.76370, -9.74525
- SMR number
- KE109-011001-
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
In a rath (KE109-011004-). An elevated rectangular area (12.75m N-S; 6.1m E-W; H 0.3m) enclosed by the lower courses of a stone and clay-mortar wall (T 0.8m; H 0.75m). Graves are marked by partially moss-covered uninscribed upright stone slabs orientated N-S. Deciduous trees shade the interior. A farm road curves around the burial ground at S and E. According to Dennehy (1997, 160), the area was used as a burial ground for unbaptised infants up to one hundred years ago. There is a souterrain (KE109-011003-) near the centre.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.