Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrowkeel (carrowkeel Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (carrowkeel Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.13303, -7.65697
- SMR number
- DG027-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A low, flat-topped, subcircular platform 33m E-W and 35m N-S. The platform is raised above the surrounding land from .1m on the S to 1m over much of the N half. There are intermittent stones around the perimeter. A 'roadway' 3m-4m wide and 0.2m below the platform surface crosses the site, near the SW edge, in a NW-SE direction. There is a marked scatter of stones between the roadway and the SW edge of the platform over a 6m x 5m area. The site which is known as a 'children's burial ground' is located on gently undulating pasture land 70m W of the Burnside River. A spur of rock outcrop adjoins the site on the NE.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.