Killegy Ch. (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Killegy Church vanished into the Kerry soil, leaving only a graveyard hillock east of the Killarney-Kenmare Road. The 1846 map still marked its cruciform shadow, but Skinner wondered whether dressed stones from that lost building were reborn inside a family mortuary chapel. The church did not disappear so much as it changed shape, hiding its holy bones within a private chamber for the dead.

On a hillock, to the E of the Killarney-Kenmare Road and within a graveyard (KE066-082004-). There are no visible remains of the church. It was indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a cruciform church 'in ruins' (c. 20m E-W; c. 18m N-S) in the SW corner of the graveyard. Skinner (1945, 6) suggests that the remains of the old church was converted into a family mortuary chapel which now stands in the SE quadrant of the graveyard (see KE066-082004-). Some dressed jambstones around the door ope and head of the E window in this chapel are possibly from the earlier church. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.