What is recorded here

Grave Yd. is a walled graveyard in County Kerry, Ireland, where church ruins still stand beside scattered stones and ivy-strangled walls. It overlooks the Laune River valley, a quiet witness to burial and memory since at least 1822. The place holds both loss and continuity, marking human life against the wider breath of the land.

In pasture, on level ground, overlooking the valley of the Laune River to the S. A subrectangular area (64m E-W; 52m N-S) defined by straight ivy-covered stone walls on the N and E sides and by a curved wall SE-NW. There is an entrance gate at WSW. The ruins of a church (KE057-078001-) stand in the S half of the graveyard. Some 19th- and early 20th-century gravestones are scattered around the graveyard. There is a concentration of chest tombs close to the W side of the church and some low, uninscribed markers to the E and S of the church. The earliest headstone noted dates to 1822. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

A Neolithic court tomb; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its curved wall and subrectangular enclosure suggest a ceremonial or communal burial function, typical of early Irish megalithic traditions.

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