What is recorded here

Kilmore’s children’s burial ground is a circular stone chamber, nearly thirty metres across, with a narrow eastern gate and a broken slab in the south-west. It is not a grand temple or a crowded churchyard, but a small enclosed place where young lives may have been laid to rest beside the older spiritual sites of Kerry. The wall still stands, the gate still opens, and the broken slab still lies where it fell, marking a loss so old it has become part the shape of the land.

Killeen burial ground is enclosed by a stone wall c 1.4m thick and c 2m in maximum height. The internal diameter measures 29.6m N-S and 26.2m E-W. A 1.6m wide gate is situated in the E wall. Numerous single stones are to be noted in the interior, and in the SW sector there is a large slab which is now broken. The 'Seven Churches' site of Kilmore lies SE of this site (KE009-009----). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 853. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

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