What is recorded here

Killeen Burial Ground in County Kerry is a disused children's grave where loose quartz and upright slabs still mark the south half of the site. Good Friday penances once bent beside those stones, turning child loss into repeated witness rather than forgotten grief. The ground no longer receives the dead, but it keeps doing what burial grounds do: holding names the living stopped speaking.

There is a large quantity of loose stones, including quartz, and a number of upright slabs in the S half of the site. These presumably relate to the period when the caher was used as a children's burial ground (KE098-076001-). The OSNB noted that penances were performed here on Good Fridays (Kilcrohane, 5). 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. 595. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

A caher used as a children's burial ground, likely dating to the Bronze Age; significant as a rare example of a site with specific funerary use.

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