Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Inchafune, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchafune
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70177, -9.05194
- SMR number
- CO108-085----
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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
At a cross road known locally as 'Croisín na Leanbh'. According to local information, a roughly rectangular area (c. 25m NE--SW; c. 10m NW-SE) is a children's burial ground. The area is covered with overgrowth and no grave-markers were noted.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.