What is recorded here

Grave Yd. is a graveyard at Templebeg, County Kerry, Ireland. What remains is a shallow rectangular depression about nine metres long and five metres wide on elevated ground above Ventry Harbour. In the mid-19th century the site was an enclosed area roughly sixty by forty metres with a ruined building eight and a half by four and a half metres inside it. The sea, wind and forgetting have done their work, leaving only a soft rectangle in the grass where the dead and the little church once stood together.

Templebeg/An Teampall Beag: A shallow rectangular depression, c. 9m E-W x 5m N-S, is all that remains of the church and graveyard marked on the OS maps. In the mid-19th century, the site consisted of an enclosed area, about 60.35 x 40.23m, within which was the ruin of a building, 8.53 x 4.57m (OSNB Ventry, 27). The site lies on elevated ground at the S side of Ventry Harbour. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 978. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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