What is recorded here

Beheens West holds a low, wide earthen ring beside Tobar Ui Leidhin, where a fieldbank has cut through the ancient earth. The soil may still cover bodies from before written records, while the well water continues to rise through the forgotten dead.

This site is possibly the 'Old burial ground near a well (KE016-028----) called "Tobar Ui Leidhin" that Ó Danachair (1958) refers to. It is now much levelled and is cut by a fieldbank running in a NW-SE direction. The site consists of a sub-circular earthen bank which is low and wide. It measures c 8m in width at the base of the bank, with the external height measuring .6m-.8m and the internal height .4m-.8m. In the interior is a semi-circular enclosure measuring internally 10m N-S and 12m E-W, with the in-curve facing NNE. The overall internal diameter measures 54m N-S and 40m E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 872. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

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