What is recorded here

Leataoibh Beag holds a rectangular burial ground on the NW slopes of Lateevemore, where coffin-shaped stone mounds still mark the earth beneath a broken fence. Tradition calls it a famine site, yet older graves may have waited there before the hunger came, and exposed bones prove the ground never stopped giving back what it took. The dead did not choose ease or dignity; they chose the slope, the stones and the rain.

Tradition maintains .that this site was a famine burial ground but graves were also said to have been present before that time. Human bones have been exposed here in the past (local information). It lies on the NW facing slopes of Lateevemore, about 76m S of the Saints road, and it consists of a rectangular enclosure measuring c. 11.8m E-W and c. 21.5m N-S. It is enclosed to S and W by a stone fence, now only .3m high. Its E side appears to be delimited by the edges of the grave mounds which occupy the interior. At a distance of 15.7m from the S wall, the N side of the enclosure is delimited by a stony ridge but the ground beyond this, for a distance of c. 5m, is raised c. 1.5m above the external ground level and also seems to be part of the burial ground. The interior is occupied by stone mounds which are generally coffin-shaped in plan. Some low uprights are also present. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 904. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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