Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ardscull, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardscull
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01596, -6.90470
- SMR number
- KD035-013----
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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
In level pasture just outside, to NW of, a very large ecclesiastical enclosure (KD035-012002-) surrounding Ardscull graveyard (KD035-012004-). In an annotated portion of the OS 6-inch map accompanying his article on Ardscull motte (KD035-010001-), OMURETHI (1891-5, 197), indicates a small square area in the corner of a roadside field which he calls, 'The Dullagh (burial place of unbaptised children)’. There are no visible surface trace of grave-markers.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 28 November 2013
References
Omurethi 1896 The Moat of Ardscull. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 11, 186-93.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.