Killeen Burial Gd (Disused) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Killeen Burial Ground is a disused rectangular grave yard on a gentle east-facing slope in County Cork, measured twenty metres north-south and eighteen metres east-west. Dense overgrowth now hides the raised earth, though an 1842 map still marked it as a grave yard and a church stood nearby on the north side. People may have laid their dead beneath that thin skin of soil before pasture and forgetting took the place back.

Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as roughly square area named 'Grave Yd'; named 'Killeen Burial Gd. (Disused)' on 1904 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Rectangular raised area (20m N-S; 18m E-W; H c. 1m), inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. Bowman (1934, 239) noted church (14477) on N side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A rectangular cairn or burial yard, likely dating to the Early Christian period; its raised area and historical map references suggest it was a significant local burial or ritual site, though specific archaeological details are not recorded.

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