What is recorded here

Killeen Burial Ground is a vanished children's cemetery in County Kerry, Ireland, marked only on an 1846 map as a circular area near a rath. The land has been deep ploughed, erasing the visible boundary and scattering the quiet dignity of the place. A stone once stood nearby as a marker, but human hands moved it decades later, further diminishing the clarity of the site. What remains is a ghost in the soil, remembered through map lines and local testimony rather than stones or shape.

In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. A children's burial ground is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 25m), c. 70m E of a rath (KE057-065----), and is named 'Killeen Burial Ground'. The area has been deep ploughed and the burial ground is not visible at ground level. A field boundary indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map immediately to the W of the burial ground has been removed and another one erected further to the E now crosses the site of the burial ground. According to local information, a prostrate stone (L 1.35m; 0.35m x 0.2m) (KE057-066001-) which is now c. 40m to the E of the burial ground, stood upright c. 15m to the W of the burial ground but was moved to its present location in the 1970s/80s. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.