What is recorded here

Calluragh Burial Ground in County Kerry, Ireland, is a children's burial ground preserved as a low rectangular mound scattered with upright stones and a small slate slab bearing a rough cross. The nearby ogham stone is reputed to have come from this site, linking the quiet platform to older local memory. Children may have rested here while adults watched from the surrounding land, turning a small mound into a place of tender loss.

Calluragh Burial Ground: Depicted on the first edition of the OS map as a small rectangular area, and marked only as ‘site of’ on the second edition, this site is preserved as a mound or platform of subrectangular plan. It averages .45m high above surrounding ground level and measures 6.9m N-S x 14.6m E-W in overall dimensions. Defined at N by a stony bank, its upper surface is littered with numerous stones, some of which are upright. A small slate slab, .2m high and .25m wide, has a rough cross rubbed onto one face. A nearby ogham stone (KE097-003004-) is reputed to have come from this site. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1026. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

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