What is recorded here

Kyleturraheen is a graveyard in Turraheen Lower, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a natural hillock on a north-facing slope overlooking the Turraheen river valley, with a holy well about 600 metres to the east-southeast. An earthen bank and inner ditch enclose a D-shaped area measuring 50 metres east-west at the south and about 38 metres north-east to south-west, truncated at the south by a modern roadway. Inside the enclosure the hill rises to a summit holding wall footings of a possible church and a possible bullaun stone or stoup, while low rows of unmarked upright stones in the east sector may mark graves of unbaptised children or the church graveyard.

On top of a natural hillock on a N-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area overlooking Turraheen river valley to the N. There is a holy well (TS046-003----) c. 600m to the ESE. The graveyard occupies a natural hillock, the base of which is enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.7m; base wth 2.5m; int. H 0.25-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-1m) with an inner fosse (Wth 1.7m) delimiting a D-shaped area (L at S 50m E-W; diam. approx. 38m NE-SW) which is truncated by a modern roadway at S on an E-W axis. The hill rises to a summit inside the enclosure with traces of the wall-footings of a possible church (TS046-002001-) and possible bullaun stone or stoup (046-002004-). Low rows of umarked orthostats orientated on a N-S axis in the E sector of the enclosure may represent the headstone of unbaptised children (046-002002-) or may represent the graveyard (046-002003-) associated with the church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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