Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Newtown Upper, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Upper
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26039, -6.49051
- SMR number
- DU024-001002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in pastureland on the brow of a small valley overlooking a stream. A children's burial ground traditionally used for the burial unbaptised children. It is located with a circular enclosure which maybe the remains of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (DU024-001003-). Also within the enclosure a church remains as an oblong mound (DU024-001001-; Healy 1975, 1-19; Ua Broin 1943, 87-88).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 6 July 2018
References
Ua Broin, L. 1943 Rathcoole, County Dublin and its neighbourhood. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 73, 88.
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.