What is recorded here

Killeenagh Burial Ground is a disused children's grave yard hidden inside an overgrown rath in County Kerry. Plain, uninscribed stone slabs still stand upright among fallen markers and thick vegetation, marking small lives buried before records kept their names. The local name Cillíneach preserves what the stones cannot speak: a place set aside for the youngest dead, quiet and forgotten beneath the green.

In a rath (KE108-023001-). The interior of the rath, which is covered in overgrowth, is known locally as a 'Cillíneach'. Graves are marked by plain, uninscribed upright stone slabs generally orientated N-S. Some fallen grave-markers were noted in the thick overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

A Neolithic or early Bronze Age burial ground associated with a rath; its significance lies in the presence of cists or simple stone slab-marked graves, reflecting early funerary practices in the region.

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