What is recorded here

One edge of the finished chamber still touches the sky. The visible room is a shallow inbox, not the depth you want to bridge. An Riasc has already built the camera, the lens and the living dataset. It waits for the host to stop wanting a visible chamber and to accept the edge as the whole game.

National Monument No. 519. Calluragh burial ground/An Cheallnúach: KE042-060001- is located about 1.25km E of the village of Ballyferriter on approximately the highest point in the townland with a good view to the N over Smerwick Harbour. (8) Cross-inscribed pillars and slabs: Stone E (KE042-060019-), like stone D, had also been removed to Adare Manor but is now in the National Museum. It is a thin rectangular sandstone slab decorated, on one face only, with a Greek cross with widely expanded head and arms and a plain stem. Two crosslets were carved in the upper angles. A number of multi-strand designs (fret and interlaced patterns) had been carved as a palimpsest over the original cross designs. L: .87m. W: .59m. T: .05m. This stone is now Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, Co. Chiarraí (pers. comm. Isabel Bennett) where it has been assigned the monument number KE042-169----. To see a 3D model of this monument, visit; https://skfb.ly/YLNT The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 874. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 9 August 2013

Probably dating to the early Christian period, this cross-slab likely served a memorial or liturgical function within the burial ground. Its carved design may reflect local Christian traditions or personal devotion, though specific folklore associated with the site is not recorded.

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