County: Kerry Site name: BALLYBUNION
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Raghnall O Floinn, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
Site type: Burial
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 486574m, N 640547m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.504509, -9.670755
In digging a trench for drainage pipes, human bones were discovered. Excavation concentrated on a long stone cist, largely intact. This measured 2.1m long, orientated east-west. It was composed of slabs set on edge, sometimes paired. The cist was trapezoidal in plan, wider at the west (0.6m) than at the east (0.4m). Only one small capstone survived at the extreme east end. The burial consisted of the unburnt remains of an adult male lying on his side, facing south, with the head in the west.
Part of a second stone cist was visible in the exposed section face.
The disturbed remains of unprotected burials lay in the immediate vicinity suggesting the existence here of a cemetery.
