What is recorded here

Indicated is a lost ecclesiastical enclosure in County Kerry, Ireland, where a rectangular burial ground still marks the edge of a wider oval now reduced to faint cropmarks and memory. The 1846 map drew its broken line across fields and a small stream, but later surveys kept only the graves, as if the church itself had refused to be named. In 1973, shadow and soil revealed the bank again, suggesting that the place still holds its shape beneath ordinary ground.

Access to this possible ecclesiastical enclosure was not gained. It was indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as an oval area (c. 85m E-W; c. 55m N-S) defined by a broken line and with a N-S field boundary crossing its E half, a townland boundary and a small stream crossing its W half and a rectangular burial ground (KE101-026002-) in its NE quadrant. Only the burial ground is indicated on the 1895-7 OS 6-inch map. The cropmark of the levelled bank of the enclosure is visible E-W in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, V 49-50) taken in 1973. The burial ground, covered with overgrowth, is also visible in the aerial photograph. 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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