What is recorded here

Kilmeany’s children’s burial ground stands as a raised semi-circular earthwork, halved by a fieldbank that erased its southern memory. The surviving ridge holds a quiet warning about the small lives buried beneath soil later marked for forgetting. A quarry bit into its corner, yet the interior still rises four metres above the surrounding land, refusing to flatten into ordinary ground.

This burial ground would appear to have been cut in half by a fieldbank, and there are no surface remains of the site in the field to the SW. All that remains today is a semi-circular earthen enclosure (KE011-035001-) measuring internally 28m NE-SW and 45m NW-SE. The interior is raised considerably above the surrounding land. A quarry has slightly cut the SW corner of this site. An earthen ridge running across the interior of this site in an E-W direction measures c 6m wide at the base. A1.4m wide fosse would appear to run along this bank on the N side. The external height of the bank measures .6m-.8m, the internal height of the bank .3m-1.3m and the width of the bank at the base c 6m. The highest point of the interior measures 4m above the surrounding land. This site is marked on the 1841-42 OS map as 'Kilmeany Burial Ground' and on the 1939 map as 'Kilmorna Burial Ground (disused)'. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 864. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

A semi-circular earthen enclosure, likely a Bronze Age children's burial ground; its significance lies in the rare focus on infant or child burials, offering insight into ancient funerary practices and social attitudes towards childhood.

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