What is recorded here

Killeen Burial Ground (Disused) is a children's burial ground in Killeen (Killoscully parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a natural hillock rising above the flat floodplains of a river valley in a mountainous region. Low standing stones protrude from the mound surface, and several align in rows oriented from north-northeast to south-southwest. The mound measures two metres high, twenty-four metres from northwest to southeast and fourteen point five metres from north-northeast to south-southwest.

Situated on a natural hillock on the flat floodplains of a river valley in a mountainous region. A natural hillock which has been used as a children's burial ground as evidenced by low orthostats protruding from the surface of the mound (H 2m; 24m NW-SE; 14.5m NNE-SSW). Several orthostats appear to be aligned in rows orientated on a NNE-SSW axis. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

A Neolithic portal dolmen; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its use as a children's burial ground suggests ritual or social significance in Neolithic funerary practices.

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