What is recorded here

Calluragh Burial Ground is an Early Christian graveyard on the south slopes of Lateevemore, overlooking Ventry Harbour in County Kerry, Ireland. Stones and mounds still mark graves in its southwest corner, while quartz pebbles elsewhere suggest people returned again and again to lay the dead beside the living memory of the place.

National Monument No. 10044. Kilcolman/Cill na gColmán: An Early Christian church site KE042-141001- lying on the S slopes of an E-W spur of Lateevemore, overlooking Ventry Harbour. (3) The visible graves and gravemarkers are confined to the SW quadrant of the enclosure. The most clearly defined grave lies 5m NW of the ogham stone and consists of a low, roughly rectangular mound, 2.25m long NW-SE, its SW side delimited by 3 stones set on edge. The position of other graves are indicated by mounds, low upright stones or prostrate slabs. On the OS maps, graves were also marked in the NE part of the site, and the presence of 2 piles of quartz pebbles here, on the mound of stones already described (1), suggests that this area was reused for calluragh burials. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 868. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 9 August 2013

Early Christian burial ground, 6th–9th century AD. Associated with a church site, indicating its significance as a religious and communal burial location in a coastal settlement.

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