Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Loughane More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughane More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.60206, -10.08913
- SMR number
- CO126-035002-
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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 the W half of a rath (CO126-035001-). A raised fern-covered rectangular area (12m E-W; 8m N-S; H 0.5m) containing plain uninscribed stone grave-markers, generally orientated N-S. According to local information, this is 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.