Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Derreen Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreen Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.68855, -9.75750
- SMR number
- CO116-037----
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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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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
On a gorse-covered terrace, on a S-facing slope. A rectangular area (18m E-W; 10m N-S) enclosed by intermittent traces of a stone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.3m) on the W, N and E sides and by outcropping rock on the S side. According to local information, this is a 'cillíneach' or children's burial ground. Some plain uninscribed stone grave-markers were noted, especially in the E half.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.