What is recorded here

Stone number 142 stands in Ráithín Uí Bhuaigh Graveyard, overlooking Dingle Harbour from elevated ground. Laurence Dunne recorded it during a 2010 survey, joining at least sixteen other cross-slabs hidden within the old burial enclosure. Its Latin cross ends in unusual ‘T’ bars, marking it as one of five stones sharing that rare shape. The graveyard itself changed when Lord Ventry rebuilt it in 1870, yet these earlier stones remained beside the new roadway and mausoleum.

In 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details about a cross-inscribed stone no. 142: 'Raheenyhooig- Ráithín Uí Bhuaigh Graveyard [KE053-059002-] is situated on elevated ground, at 50m OD, sloping towards and overlooking Dingle Harbour 0.8km to the north. Examination of the 2nd Edition of 1896 clearly shows the enormous changes that Lord Ventry made in 1870 including the planting of trees, construction of squared off enclosing banks and new roadway as well as the Ventry mausoleum-denoted ‘Vault’ on the map. An ‘L’ shaped pathway is also shown. Of particular interest is the denotation of the remains of the previous enclosure [KE053-059001-] or raheen of the burial ground by a curving array of hachures. In the course of this study a coherent section of the early enclosure and at least thirty archaeological artefacts (mainly cross-slabs) were recorded at Raheenyhooig. Sixteen previously unrecorded cross-slabs were recorded in Raheenyhooig Graveyard. They are disposed around the centre of the graveyard within the limits of the earlier enclosure. Five of the cross-slabs (9, 64, 142 and 365) are decorated with Latin crosses with ‘T’ bar terminals' (Dunne 2010, 12). See attached plan and photograph courtesy of Laurence Dunne Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Laurence Dunne Date of upload: 28 June 2022

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