What is recorded here

Indicated is a children's burial ground in County Kerry, Ireland. The place holds grass-covered mounds and upright sandstone markers veined with quartz, mostly clustered in the western half of an overgrown enclosure. A larger rectangular mound lies near the eastern end, while scattered quartz pebbles mark the ground around the smaller graves. Trees and undergrowth now hide much of the site, but the stones still stand out against the green.

Within an enclosure (KE093-02701-) which is overgrown with trees and undergrowth. Numerous low grass-covered mounds and upright stone grave-markers are mostly concentrated in the W half of the interior of the enclosure. According to Dennehy (1997, 146), these markers are of sandstone with quartz veins and there are quartz pebbles scattered across the site. A larger rectangular grass-covered mound (3.4m E-W; 2m N-S; H 0.4m) occurs near the E end of the interior of the enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The presence of upright stone grave-markers and low mounds suggests a funerary or ritual landscape of local significance.

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