placenamesKilquane
Cill Chuáin
An archaeological survey documented the burial ground’s stonework and the limits of its surviving evidence.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chuáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Paróiste Múrach · Irish · main form · local name
- Kilquane · English · main form
Place & story
The church on successive maps
Robert Hanbidge’s July 2011 survey report places Kilquane burial ground in Kilquane parish, southeast of Feohanagh. The team found no visible structural remains of its church. Their comparison of Ordnance Survey maps showed ruins in 1846 but no church depicted in 1896, suggesting that the structure had disappeared by the later survey. That comparison does not establish the year of its loss. [2]
Local stone and reused cross-slabs
The survey distinguished mortared tombs from tombs built with dry stone, some retaining grass-covered roofs. Thirty-eight unnamed grave markers were recorded, generally upright pieces of local stone, and two cross-slabs served as grave markers. Overgrowth and collapsed masonry restricted access, so these were recorded findings rather than a complete count of everything once present. The report treats the grass-roofed tombs as a distinctive part of the burial ground’s character. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Coordinates
- 52.22216, -10.31625 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 39.82 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1104 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilquane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Archaeological Survey of Kilquane Burial Ground, Feohanagh, County Kerry, July 2011, printed pages 5, 8–10 · Robert Hanbidge, Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd.; surveyors Ann Frykler and Robert Hanbidge
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.