What is recorded here

Carrowkeel is a children's burial platform in County Donegal, Ireland. The ground is a low, rounded bench of earth and stone, broad enough to walk across but marked by a narrow cut and scattered rocks that suggest it was made for people, not left to chance. Local tradition holds that it is a children's burial ground, which gives the quiet field a tender edge and reminds us that even small lives were set apart and remembered.

A low, flat-topped, subcircular platform 33m E-W and 35m N-S. The platform is raised above the surrounding land from .1m on the S to 1m over much of the N half. There are intermittent stones around the perimeter. A 'roadway' 3m-4m wide and 0.2m below the platform surface crosses the site, near the SW edge, in a NW-SE direction. There is a marked scatter of stones between the roadway and the SW edge of the platform over a 6m x 5m area. The site which is known as a 'children's burial ground' is located on gently undulating pasture land 70m W of the Burnside River. A spur of rock outcrop adjoins the site on the NE. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Carrowkeel Children's Burial Platform is a Neolithic burial monument, likely associated with the passage tomb complex of Carrowkeel. Its significance lies in its potential connection to early ritual practices and child burials in the Neolithic period of northwest Ireland.

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