What is recorded here
Keel’s children’s burial ground stands on a western slope above the Caragh river valley, holding small upright slabs and fallen boulders within a crude stone wall. The word kileen suggests these were babies denied church burial, placed instead in marginal ground where love and exclusion met. Overgrowth still chokes the site, hiding a bullaun stone that local memory believes lies beneath the grass.
For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 316-22, no. 974).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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