What is recorded here

Half-hidden under grass and gravel at the foot of Aghatubrid mountain, the children’s burial ground in Laharan South keeps its shape only in memory and map. A shallow bank, barely higher than a child’s knee, marks the edge of a place where small lives may have been returned to the earth before records learned their names. The pasture moves above it now, unsteady and bright, but the circle remains in the land’s patience, waiting to be remembered rather than measured.

This site, marked as a circular enclosure on both editions of the OS map, is known locally as a children's burial ground. It is located in gentle W sloping pasture at the foot of Aghatubrid mountain. The enclosing bank of earth and gravel, barely discernible beneath a dense overgrowth, has an external height of .9m at N. Its inner lace is not distinguishable from the stony, and apparently featureless, interior of the site. The overall dimensions of the enclosure are 22m N-S and 25m E-W. 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. 1033. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

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