What is recorded here
Knockaninane West holds a children's burial ground inside a rath, though no grave or marker remains visible. Local memory assigns the hollow to lost young lives, leaving the soil heavy with absence rather than stone. The place resists display, keeping its dead beneath ordinary grass and silence.
In a rath (KE059-015----). According to local information, the rath was used as a children's burial ground. There are no graves or grave-markers in evidence in the rath.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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