What is recorded here
Cill na Leanbh is a children's burial ground hidden in pasture on a north-facing slope in County Cork. Its faint earthen bank still outlines a rectangular chamber twelve metres long, waiting for the dead to return. Local memory preserves the chamber as a place where young lives were returned to the earth, while the surviving field continues to breathe above them.
In pasture, on a terrace on a N-facing slope. A rectangular area (12m E-W; 8m N-S) enclosed by the intermittent remains of an earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) is according to local information a children's burial ground, known as Cill na Leanbh.
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