What is recorded here

Killeenagh Burial Ground is a circular children's grave hidden in rough pasture on a Kerry ridge, marked only by low uninscribed slabs and a stone-faced scarp. Capt. D. B. O'Connell recorded the local name cilleanach in Clonee during the 1930s, yet he never saw the place used. That absence makes the site stranger: infants may have been laid to rest there while adults watched from a distance, keeping the child's death separate from the ordinary village ritual.

In rough pasture, on top of a knoll, on a ridge. A circular area (9m N-S; 8.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m) which is stone faced SW-NW. The interior is raised (H 0.3m) above the external ground level and contains low uninscribed stone slabs orientated N-S. Trees are growing on the perimeter. This may be the 'cilleanach' recorded in Clonee townland in the 1930s by Capt. D. B. O'Connell and which he had never seen used (KAS). 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

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