Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilcock, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcock
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40113, -6.66702
- SMR number
- KD005-002004-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Simms (1999, 185), the old graveyard in Kilcock (KD005-002002-) was closed for burials from August 1899, but despite (or perhaps because of) the closure, 'still-born' babies were buried there.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Coffin-resting stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.