What is recorded here

Burial in Camp (corkaguiny By.),cool stands as a lost row of stone cists in County Kerry, Ireland, destroyed when a new road cut through Glenfais in the first half of the 19th century. Ten or twelve graves lay merely two or three feet below the surface, holding extended skeletons but no goods, suggesting a quiet community buried in regular lines rather than a single heroic chief. The road builders treated ancient death as obstacle, not memory, and the precise location vanished beneath wheels and forgetting.

In the first half of the 19th century a new road, being constructed through Glenfais, cut through a row of 10 or 12 stone-lined cists lying 2 or 3 feet (.6 to .9m) below the surface. Rowan (1858, 102-3) trenched the adjoining field and exposed a 2nd row of graves each containing an extended skeleton but no grave-goods. Apparently a great number of cists were present, laid out in regular rows. Rowan described the location as lying midway between an ogham stone (KE036-046----) and a standing stone (KE037-042----) which would place it in Cool townland, but Windele (1860, 115) named the adjacent townland of Camp, and the precise location has not been identified. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 198. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

Stone-lined cists, likely dating to the Early Christian or medieval period, disturbed during 19th-century road construction. Their presence indicates a formerly significant burial alignment, now largely lost due to early excavation.

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