What is recorded here

Killeen is a children's burial ground on Duvillaun More Island, recorded in 1838 beside ruined stone houses and old cultivation ridges. The cashel still holds a church remains, a cross slab and a possible slab-lined burial, yet no child grave has surfaced to mark the loss. Whatever lives in that hidden ground belongs to the island now, waiting beneath grass and memory for someone brave enough to listen.

On Duvillaun More Island, located within a cashel (MA033A003001-). There is a cluster of ruined 19th century vernacular stone houses, with associated field plots and cultivation ridges, 30m to N. According to the OS Letters (1838), the cashel was used as a children's burial ground. Use of the cashel for this purpose is most likely to have been contemporary with the 19th settlement on the island. There are the remains of a church (MA033A003004-), a cross slab (MA033A003002-) and a possible slab-lined burial (MA033A003003-) in the E half of the cashel interior, but no visible trace of graves associated with the children’s burial ground. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 February 2018

A portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age; its location within a cashel suggests later reuse or ritual significance.

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.