Burial, Lomanagh, Co. Kerry

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Burial, Lomanagh, Co. Kerry

There is a grave here, or there might be, and that uncertainty is itself the point.

In level pasture on the eastern side of the Slaheny River valley in south-west Kerry, a site is recorded not because anything definitive was found, but because someone noticed a slight mound of stones and thought it worth writing down. There are no visible remains today. What exists is really a question, preserved in ink.

In the 1930s, a Captain D. B. O'Connell observed that roughly ten feet east of a nearby ogham stone, there appeared to be a low accumulation of stones that might indicate a grave site. Ogham stones are upright stones inscribed with an early medieval Irish script, the characters running along the edge of the stone, and they are frequently associated with burial grounds across Munster. Whether that association holds here is unknown. O'Connell also flagged a second possible grave site in the adjoining field to the south-west, which raises the possibility that this stretch of pasture along the Slaheny was once a more significant funerary landscape. Both sites remain unexcavated and unconfirmed, their status suspended somewhere between monument and memory.

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