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Children's burial ground

An Carn Buí, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, An Carn Buí, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
An Carn Buí
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Old Burial Ground
Coordinates
55.05495, -8.34550
SMR number
DG032-008----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Recorded as 'Old Burial Ground (Disused)' on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch map on the island named 'Illannamarve' (Oileán na Marbh). The island was used as a place of burial for stillborn and upbaptised infants during the 19th and 20th centuries. Several unidentified adult bodies washed ashore during that period were also buried there. A cross and plague were erected on the island in 2009 to commemorate those interred. The inscription on the plaque reads:
‘I ndíl chuimhne / ar na hAingle Beaga / agus na Mairnéalaigh / atá adhlachta ar Oileán na Marbh / ón 19ú to dtí 20ú aois / Suaimhneas síoraí tabhair daofa, a Thiarna / “Yes we will gather here at the river”/ Tógtha at on Phobal Áitúil / 9ú Lúnasa 2009’.
In memory of the little angels and the mariners who are buried on Oileán na Marbh from the 19th to the 20th centuries. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord. “Yes we will gather at the river”. Erected by the local community, 9th July 2009.
(Lacy et al. 1983, 312; No. 1771)

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 30 August 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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