Graveyard in Booleenshare, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

The Minute Book of the Co. Kerry Field Club (Vol. 2, 793-4) records 'several mounds that look like grave sites and also some standing slabs that looked like cist graves disturbed and uncovered' in association with a church site (KE014-102----) in Booleenshare townland. The exact location of the possible graveyard was not recorded.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE014-102001

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