Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrigillihy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigillihy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.53642, -9.12762
- SMR number
- CO142-103----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a terrace on a N-facing slope. A rectangular area (12m E-W; 8m N-S) enclosed by the intermittent remains of an earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) is according to local information a children's burial ground, known as Cill na Leanbh. Traces of low mounds indicate the graves. This is the children's burial ground recorded by O'Donoghue (1986, 43).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.