What is recorded here

An Timleach is a children's burial ground on a sloping pasture above the Inny estuary, preserved in local memory rather than official maps. Its stony platform holds small boulders and upright markers, waiting for the dead young to be named. Two sailors may have joined the children later, bridging sea and soil in one forgotten field.

Though not marked on the OS maps, this site is locally known as a ceallúnach and is referred to in the OSNB as such (Drummod, 41). It is located close to a field boundary, on sloping pasture which overlooks the estuary of the Inny river at E. It consists of a subrectangular, stony platform which measures 17m NE-SW x 19m NW-SE and rises up to .4m high. Its upper surface is uneven and contains a large number of small boulders and some upright, uninscribed grave-markers. The site was not used within living memory as a place of interment, but two sailors are reputed to have been buried here in the nineteenth century (local information). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1038. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

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