What is recorded here

Killogrone Burial Ground in County Kerry, Ireland, holds low upright slabs on a raised patch of earth where unbaptised children were laid to rest. Brash recorded one such burial in 1873, marking the site as a ceallúnach set apart from ordinary Christian graves. The stones still stand in a small rectangle at the north angle of an old wall, waiting for the names and stories that never reached the public record.

A large number of low, upright slabs occur on a raised area (in the enclosure KE080-046001-), measuring 12m N-S x 15.5m E-W, in the N angle of the internal dividing wall. These probably relate to the use of the site as a ceallúnach (OSNB Caher, 30). Brash recorded that the burial of an unbaptised child took place at Killogrone in 1873 (1879, 240). The above description is derived from O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. (compilers) 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University press. (1996), no. 959. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 13 June 2013

A Neolithic or early Bronze Age burial ground, possibly containing portal dolmen or cist burials; its significance lies in the presence of multiple upright slabs suggesting ritual or funerary use.

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