What is recorded here

Killmakillogue graveyard once held a water-worn clay slate stone shaped like a person, called Eevan by the peasantry and revered as a saint's image beside a standing stone. In 1846 the stone was carried away and perched on a limestone rock in Kenmare, where John Lecky saw it again in 1853. It has since vanished from that place, leaving behind a gap marked by reverence, removal and forgetting.

A correspondent, whose initials were J.L. (probably John Lecky), described in 1853 a 'water worn fragment of clay slate, bearing a rude likeness to the human form, which the peasantry call Eevan' which he saw 'perched on the summit of a limestone rock' in the grounds of a house in Kenmare (KE093-131----) (Anon. 1913, 102). The correspondent noted that the original location of the stone, which was 'regarded with reverence as the image of some saint', was in or near Killmakillogue graveyard (KE108-002----) and in the 'same immediate neighbourhood' as a standing stone (KE108-028----) (ibid.). The stone was removed from its original location in 1846 and seen by the correspondent in Kenmare in 1847 and again in 1853 (ibid.). Its present location is not known. 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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