Steps in Cill Buaine, County Kerry

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KE088-027004- is located on a fairly steep, S facing slope of Knocknaskereighta mountain, towards the head of a broad valley which is locally known as ‘The Glen’. It affords excellent views to St Finan’s Bay and the Skelligs at W. The site is associated with St Buonia (Beoanigh), who is locally reputed to have been a sister of St Patrick. It has also been suggested that the site was founded by St Brendan or by St Beoanus, his disciple (O’Donoghue 1893, 280-3). Permission to survey the site was refused, and the following description is based on summary notes and the accounts published of it by Lynch (1902a) and Henry (1957). The principal components of the site are located on two stone revetted terraces (KE088-027017- & KE088-027018-) which extend roughly E-W along the hill-slope. Terrace KE088-027018- is reached from S by a short flight of well-laid steps, .7m wide (KE088-027016-). Cork University Press (1996), no. 954.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE088-027016

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