What is recorded here

Kildrum Graveyard holds three rough Tau crosses on the Dingle Peninsula, possibly marking an Early Medieval church now vanished beneath three hundred unnamed stones. The cross cuts without a top bar, forcing the eye downward instead of upward, as if death itself rejected heavenly ascent. People buried there faced Mount Brandon and Dingle Harbour, not heaven.

In 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details about Tau Cross No. 1100: 'Kildrum Graveyard is situated on the N side of the Dingle Peninsula 4km NE of Dingle. It is situated on an elevated site at 50m OD on the lower ENE slopes of Leathaoibh with views S over Dingle Harbour and Mount Brandon to the NE. The old graveyard [KE043-130001-] is studded with around three hundred small unnamed headstones, notched grave markers and cross-slabs that are disposed around the interior. The spatial and density patterning of these gravemarkers most likely reflect the location of the medieval church [KE043-130----] and also the oval enclosure that is evident on the 1st Ed OS map of 1841. There are no visible, above ground, coherent, remains of the medieval church of Kildrum today. Three cross-slabs (1099, 1100 & 1102) are ‘Tau’ cross forms. The crosses are roughly shaped and similar to others at nearby Raheenyhooig and Kilmalkedar and are possibly Early Medieval. See attached plan and photographs courtesy of Laurence Dunne Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Laurence Dunne Date of upload: 27 June 2022

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