What is recorded here

Killeen Grave Yard is an egg-shaped ringfort in County Limerick where un baptised children were buried, according to an 1838 survey. The earthen bank still rises from the pasture, though no markers remain to identify the small graves hidden beneath the grass. What is certain is the shape, the reuse, and the refusal to forget children the formal church would have discarded.

Possible ringfort (LI034-001001-) reused as a children's burial ground. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Egg-shaped area enclosed by broad eroded earthen bank with external fosse SW->NW. Field boundary truncates enclosing bank at narrowest point to E. Interior slopes down gently towards centre; no visible surface trace of burials or burial markers. In 1838 the Ordnance Survey Name Books recorded that in the townland of Athea Upper. A large fort (LI034-001001-), in which children, who die without baptism, are buried' (OSNB Rathronan Parish, 1482). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 20 May 2019 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

A possible ringfort reused as a children's burial ground; significance relates to medieval or later funerary practices in a reused defensive or domestic site.

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