Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Roosk, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roosk
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.67361, -9.66511
- SMR number
- CO117-010----
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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 near the N shore of Bantry Bay. A circular area (diam. 13m), largely covered by ferns, enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.25m) from which occasional stones protrude. A raised circular area (diam. 4m; H 0.15m) in the centre of the interior contains low uninscribed grave-markers. The field in which the burial ground is located is known locally as 'Páirc na Cille' and the enclosed area is known 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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial ground1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.