What is recorded here

Kilpatrick Grave Yd. is a disused burial ground in County Kerry, Ireland, where uninscribed slabs still mark the dead beneath level pasture. The Roughty River flows beside it, and low banks of earth and stone enclose the irregular plot. People may have laid their loved ones there long before records existed, trusting the land to remember what stone cannot name.

In level pasture, on the N side of the valley of the Roughty River. An irregularly shaped area (32m E-W; 22m N-S) defined on the N side by outcropping rock (H 0.9m), on the E side by a faint linear bank (H 0.1m) and on the S and W sides by a low curving bank (Wth 1.7m; H 0.3m) of earth and stone. The level interior is raised c. 0.4m above the external ground level at S and SW. Graves are marked by uninscribed upright slabs (max. H 0.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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