Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Knockroe Middle, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe Middle
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.61288, -10.01747
- SMR number
- CO127-043----
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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 pasture, on a terrace on a S-facing slope. A roughly rectangular area (11.8m N-S; 8m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.75m) on its E, S and the E part of its N sides and unenclosed elsewhere. 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.