Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Corballis, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corballis
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 52.92310, -6.77789
- SMR number
- KD038-048001-
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Shown on 5 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
Burial ground associated with Corballis Church (KD038-048----) located 30m to N, may have originally been a circular-shaped graveyard that was levelled c. fourteen years ago, and the area has been ploughed. No surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Burial ground depicted on 25-inch OS map as a semi-circular shaped area bisected at N by a public road running E-W with church to N of road. No visible trace of burial ground to N of road. Corballis House 275m to S, Corballis Castle (KD038-047----) 310m to WNW. Burial ground described in 1838 as following; 'There was formerly here a graveyard, which fell into disuse and is now only traceable' (O'Flanagan 1927, 88). Fitzgerald (1903-05, 370-1) recorded that this site was used as a burial ground for unbaptised children and described the site as following; 'The land for some distance around is never tilled, as the building is said to have been a chapel (KD038-048----) in ancient times; and though no graves now exist, yet unbaptized children are interred here'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 December 2019
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1903-5 Corbally Hill. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 4, 370-371.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kildare collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.