What is recorded here

Cahireenaleanbh is a children's burial ground hidden inside a densely overgrown oval mound in County Kerry. Local tradition also claims friars and other adults slept beneath the same earth, suggesting the cashel served several generations before vegetation swallowed its boundaries. The name still separates the dead by age even when the ground no longer shows individual graves.

In a possible cashel (KE067-097001-) which is now evident as a densely overgrown oval mound (c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W). It is known locally as a children's burial ground called 'Cahireenaleanbh' and was also recorded as such in the 1940s (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). There is also a tradition that friars and other adults were buried here and in the 1940s 'mounds of earth marking graves' could still be seen (ITA). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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