Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Greenane (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenane (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.62470, -9.85438
- SMR number
- CO128-046----
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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 a knoll covered with briars and ferns. A roughly D-shaped area (dims. 6m E-W) with a straight W side (L 14m) is known locally as a children's burial ground and contains plain uninscribed grave-markers. No burials have taken place there in living memory.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.