What was once mapped, named, and recognised as a distinct place of interment now exists only in cartographic memory and a handful of uneven rises in the ground that may or may not mean anything at all.

A killeen, in Irish tradition, was a small unconsecrated burial ground used for those who could not be buried in sanctified earth, most commonly unbaptised infants, but sometimes also strangers or suicides. These sites occupy an ambiguous space in Irish religious and folk culture, acknowledged but set apart, rarely marked with headstones, and often forgotten within a generation or two of falling out of use. The Knockane site appeared on the Ordnance Survey map of 1841 to 1842 under the name 'Killeen Burial Ground', which suggests it was still known and identifiable at that point. By the time the 1939 revision was made, the cartographers added the word 'disused', a small but telling shift. Sometime after that, quarrying operations removed whatever physical fabric remained. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, recorded the site but noted that even then it was impossible to say whether the surface irregularities bore any relationship to the original enclosure.

Nothing survives here to visit in any conventional sense. The ground offers a few undulations, but these cannot be connected with confidence to the killeen that two successive maps placed here. The interest lies less in what can be seen than in what the sequence of evidence reveals: a place that was marginal in life, quietly recorded on maps for nearly a century after it fell out of use, and then removed without apparent notice.