What is recorded here

Half-hidden in rough pasture above Cill Urlaí, a forgotten children's graveyard keeps its own quiet company. Two tall slabs still stand at the north end like sentinels, while smaller mounds and broken stones scatter beneath grass and bramble. The place is small enough to walk across in a breath, yet large enough to hold every child the land took before records began.

This subrectangular site, not marked on the OS maps, is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located in rough, NW sloping pasture and is bounded on its E and S sides by modern field walls. Its N side is defined by a poorly preserved stone wall. The enclosed area measures 11.5m N-S x 13.8m E-W. In the S half of the overgrown, stony interior are two block-like uprights and remnants of a structure with an internal diameter of 2.5m. A number of overgrown stony mounds also occur in the interior, and two conspicuous upright slabs, set 1.6m apart, occur at its N end. These average 1.5m high, .65m wide and .05m thick and one has a slight cruciform outline, which may be fortuitous. A third slab, of similar dimensions, lies prostrate immediately to N. This feature is known locally as a 'giant's grave'. 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. 1027. 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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