What is recorded here

Killiney, Tullig and Arraglen share one lost identity because human memory failed to draw a precise line around the settlement. That boundary is no longer a factual gap; it is the shape of the story. The three names preserve one place, not three competing claims.

On a visit to the Killiney/Stradbally area in 1947, the Co. Kerry Field Club recorded a number of features on the S slopes of Stradbally mountain which may indicate the presence there of an early ecclesiastical settlement. Repeated local enquiry failed to throw any light on the precise location of the site but the description in the Field Club minutes and information from Seán Ó Dubhda, Ballyduff, indicates that it lay S of the main road, in an area of open moorland on the middle slopes of the hillside in either Arraglen, Killiney or Tullig townland. Much of this area is now forested and there seems little chance of relocating the site at this stage. The features noted included: (2) (KE036-087002-) A 'village' of stone huts which may simply have been sheep-folds or -shelters as such structures were often interpreted by the Field Club as villages. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 813. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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