What is recorded here

St. John's Cemetery in County Kerry has held dead since 1850, though local memory stretches its life into the early 1800s. The stone wall stands tall enough to keep out cattle and sharp weather, yet most graves remain nameless mounds beneath rough pasture. Seven new white crosses now mark the forgotten, turning a quiet field into a place where the community remembers what time had smoothed away.

In rough pasture, on a N-facing slope. A roughly rectangular burial ground (92m E-W; 68m N-S) enclosed by a well-constructed rubble stone wall (T 0.6m; H 1.6m) topped with vertical stone coping. The entrance gate is at the roadside to the W. Graves, which are largely unmarked, are visible as low mounds on the uneven surface. According to local information, the burial ground was in use from the early 19th century to the 1940s. The local community has recently erected seven plain white crosses in it. A plaque on the gate has the inscription 'St. John's Cemetery AD 1850'. This burial ground is not indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

A roughly rectangular enclosed burial ground, likely dating to the Early Christian period, featuring a stone-walled enclosure with a vertical stone coping and entrance gate. Its construction suggests a significant local funerary or monastic site, though its wider archaeological context remains unclear.

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