What is recorded here

Killeen Burial Ground in County Kerry is a circular enclosure in Cloon valley containing a leacht, two bullaun stones and a cross-inscribed pillar stone. The low bank is partly overgrown, but its stone-facing and narrow entrance remain clear enough to show that people shaped the edge and marked the inside for ritual use. It is a children's burial ground, a designation that turns the quiet valley into a place where innocence, loss and remembrance belong together.

Killeen Burial Ground (KE082-020004-): Located towards the inner end of the broad floor of Cloon valley are the remains of a circular enclosure in the SE quadrant of which are a leacht, two bullaun stones and a cross-inscribed pillar stone. The enclosed area measures approximately 35m N-S x 37m E-W and is defined from N to SSW by a low, overgrown bank which averages .3m high externally and .5m internally. It has a maximum basal width of 1.6m at the well-defined entrance, 1.1m wide, which is located at NNE. From the entrance the internal face of the bank exhibits well-preserved stone-facing which is virtually continuous as far as SSW. From here to N through W only vague traces of the bank are preserved. The interior of the site, particularly the W half, is rushy and overgrown and a modern wire fence crosses it at S. 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. 938. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1976).

A circular enclosure with a leacht, bullaun stones, and cross-inscription; likely early Christian period, significant as a ritual or burial site.

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