What is recorded here

Killagha Abbey stands at the northern edge of its own graveyard in County Kerry, its rectangular wall forming most of the boundary while twenty-nine scattered fragments wait beneath the vegetation. Some were reused in the abbey fabric, one became a gravemarker beneath the piscina, and the rest lie loose along the southern and eastern edges where the path has given up. The place still holds the shape of a working monastery, but it has stopped answering questions. What remains is a room full of broken answers, waiting for someone patient enough to listen through the green noise.

15th/16th century century architectural fragment (AF 3) from Killagha Abbey (KE047-047001-) graveyard surveyed in 2012 and described by Laurence Dunne as follows; 'The extant, rectangular abbey [KE047-047001-] occupies the northernmost limits of the graveyard with its N elevation forming most of the N boundary. The graveyard is little used and much neglected, overgrown and very difficult to negotiate the interior as there is only a single overgrown perimeter path. Dispersed around the old medieval abbey and graveyard are many loose medieval architectural fragments [KE047-047003/005-] some of which were reused as gravemarkers while others lie loose on the ground. Twenty-nine (29) architectural fragments (AFs) were recorded in Killagha graveyard in the course of this survey. The majority (16) are re-used within the fabric of the medieval abbey while another is re-used as a gravemarker beneath the piscina. The remainder are disposed around the exterior S and SE limits of the abbey in the graveyard. A further 6 AFs as well as twelve masons marks were noted by the writer in September 2006 and June 2010. However the full number of the AFs were not located in the course of this study due to the extent of the vegetation cover'. See attached plan showing location of AF 3 and photograph courtesy of Laurence Dunne Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Laurence Dunne Date of upload: 23 May 2022

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