Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Reentrusk, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reentrusk
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.66988, -10.05913
- SMR number
- CO114-066001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, close to the seashore on an E-facing slope overlooking Coulagh Bay. A roughly triangular area (8.2m N-S; 8m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (max. Wth 1.8m; max. H 0.6m) on the SE and SW sides and elsewhere by a low scarp. The enclosed area was used as a children's burial ground and is known locally as a 'cillíneach'. It contains a small number of uninscribed upright stone grave-markers. An enclosure (CO114-066002-) lies c. 20m to the SE.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.