What is recorded here

Indicated is a children's burial ground in County Kerry, Ireland, where plain stone markers rise twenty-five centimetres above pasture that faces Mangerton Mountain. The D-shaped plot measures forty metres across and hides beneath ordinary grazing land, suggesting small bodies were laid to rest while adults continued working the same soil. That quiet coexistence turns a rural field into a chamber of forgotten grief, where childhood death became routine enough to bury without ceremony.

In pasture, with views S to Mangerton Mountain. A slightly raised (H c. 0.2m) D-shaped area (dims. 40m NNW-SSE) with a straight SE side (L 40m) is known locally as a 'cillín' and contains plain stone grave-markers (H c. 0.25m). The straight side is incorporated into a field boundary. This may be the 'burial ground for children' recorded in the N side of the townland in the 1840s (OSNB, Killarney, no. 1, 7). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Cillín (children's burial site), likely 18th–19th century. Significance lies in its association with local traditions of separate burial for unbaptised or stillborn children in Ireland.

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