Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Balrinnet, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrinnet
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Laghtanafoyna
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghtanafoyna
- Coordinates
- 53.39544, -6.97936
- SMR number
- KD003-006----
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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
According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 33), the site was 'a burial place for still-born infants', a belief still held locally. In level pastureland. A triangular area, with apex to S, (max. dims. L 37m N-S ; Wth 22m along N) is defined by a low scarp (H 0.5-1m) skirted by later field boundaries along N and E. The interior appears to have been disturbed when overgrowth was cleared, and there are no visible burial markers.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.