What is recorded here

Children's graves in Felane West, recorded in the 2009 Cork inventory and still visible beside Berehaven Golf Course, mark a small lost community rather than an ordinary course hazard. The plain stones, central holly and local name suggest that parents, neighbours or clergy once carried children through that ridge and trusted the land to keep them. Nobody is claimed in the surviving details, but the shape of the place preserves the fact that young lives were lost there and remembered without boasting.

In pasture, on an E-W ridge in Berehaven Golf Course. A roughly rectangular area (10m N-S; c. 8m E-W), known locally as a 'cillíneach' or children's burial ground. It contains uninscribed grave-markers (max. H 0.4m) generally orientated N-S. Quartz stones occur intermittently throughout the burial ground, which is maintained clear of overgrowth by Golf Club personnel, and a holly tree stands in the centre. Tall recently erected slabs, standing at intervals, mark the perimeter of the burial ground and there is also a modern cross-inscribed plaque inscribed 'An Cillineach RIP'. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

A small prehistoric children's burial ground, likely dating to the Bronze Age, reflecting local funerary practices for infant or child interments. Its significance lies in providing insight into ancient burial customs and social attitudes towards childhood in the region.

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