Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Derrylough, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrylough
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.68009, -9.63446
- SMR number
- CO117-014----
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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 an area overgrown with briars and ferns on the edge of a cliff overlooking Bantry Bay to the S. According to local information, the small upright stones in this area mark the graves of children.
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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stone1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.