What is recorded here

Killeen Old Burial Ground is a children's burial site in Ardcanaght, County Kerry, where a raised strip of pasture still marks the place where small bodies rested beside Cluain Hill. Two ogham stones taken from that ground now stand near the Ardcanaght Stone, carrying symbols from a child's grave into a wider ceremonial landscape. The field may have felt less like loss and more like tribute, a place where young lives were returned to soil under open sky and remembered through stone.

In pasture on S facing slope with good views of Cluain Hill. Children's burial ground in the townland of Ardcanaght (Aird Chánachta/hill of the Tribute), in the parish of Kilgarrylander, diocese of Ardfert, barony of Trughanacmy. Raised area (dims. c. 24m N-S x 14m E-W) with central depression (diam. c. 8m) in NE corner of field marks site of Children's Burial Ground. Annotated 'Killeen Old Burial Ground' on 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown as a rectangular shaped area transected at E by field boundary running N-S located in NE corner of field. Area of uncultivated land in NE corner of field visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Two ogham stones were discovered inside this burial ground by the Tralee Field Club. They were removed from this burial ground and placed beside a standing stone (KE047-026----) decorated with rock art known as the Ardcanaght Stone which stands in a field 330m to the N. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 May 2022

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