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Killeenagh Burial Gd (Disused)

Children's burial ground
Killeenagh Burial Gd (Disused)
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Killeenagh is a disused children's burial ground in County Cork, preserved inside an old ecclesiastical enclosure. A low D-shaped platform touches the south wall of a possible church, suggesting infants were laid to rest beside the building rather than marked with stones. The absence of gravemarkers makes the place feel both tender and unsettling, as if the community believed the church itself would remember what the earth had taken.
In an ecclesiastical enclosure (CO141-029001-). No gravemarkers were noted. The burial area may be the low D-shaped platform (8.6m E-W; 9m N-S) conjoined to the S wall of a possible church (CO141-029003-) in the centre of the enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Christian burial ground, likely medieval in date, associated with a possible church; significant as part of a religious enclosure, indicating a former ecclesiastical settlement.

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