Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Coonane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coonane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.76991, -9.51655
- SMR number
- CO091-012----
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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 rough grazing land, on an E-W ridge on the W side of the valley of the Barony River. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 20m) containing graves marked by plain uninscribed stones. It is known locally as a 'cillíneach' or children's burial ground.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.