What is recorded here

Kinalmeaky is a pentagonal enclosure in County Cork, Ireland, mapped in 1842 as Killeen burial ground and still shadowed by the claimed Dainish fort and hidden passage. It is the kind of place where ordinary field work stops becoming sensible because the ground itself seems to be holding a chamber beneath the grass. People may have buried their dead inside a fort that refused to release them, turning a military boundary into a living tomb. The story does not need proof to sound plausible; it only needs the shape of the field and the disappearance of what was placed within it.

Depicted as pentagonal field on O.S. map (1842) and named 'Killeen burial ground'. Low undulations to S and SW noted. Described in O.S. Name Books as 'a Dainish fort which had formerly been used as a burial ground' (CO096-018---). Tradition of associated Man-made underground passage (CO096-084---). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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