What is recorded here

Doory holds a circular children's burial ground beside Portmagee Channel, raising a narrow platform above the surrounding field. Small upright markers still break the soil in its western half, waiting for the names of infants the region stopped speaking aloud. The ceallúnach shape suggests a community that set aside a complete circle for its smallest members instead of scattering them among adult graves.

The site is marked on both editions of the OS map as a circular enclosure and is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located a short distance S of Portmagee Channel, in the SE corner of a small field. Modern field banks bound the E and S limits of the site, which is defined elsewhere as a platform 1.25m high above surrounding ground level. It is approximately circular in plan, measuring 29.5m N-S x 30.5m E-W. Small, upright grave-markers, averaging .25m high, occur within its W half. 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. 997. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

A Neolithic circular burial enclosure, likely a ceallúnach; its significance lies in its association with early communal burial practices in the region.

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