Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killeen (magunihy By., Killarney Rural Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (magunihy By., Killarney Rural Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10698, -9.52738
- SMR number
- KE058-061001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a rath (KE058-061003-). Some loose stones are scattered in the interior of the rath but no obvious grave-markers are visible. The children's burial ground was recorded in the 1940s as 'simply the corner of a field with mounds and hollows all over it and a few rough stones uninscribed round about' (Minutes of the Co. Kerry Field Club, 1941, vol. 1, 181). A church (KE058-061002-) is associated with this burial ground.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.