Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballynabrennagh Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynabrennagh Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dotted outline
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.29974, -9.65013
- SMR number
- KE029-042003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular church (KE029-042002-) standing on S quadrant of small circular-shaped earthwork (KE029-042002-) shown with a dotted outline. According to the Ordnance Survey Name Books, the walls of which stood; 'about 3 ft. [0.9m] high placed in the centre of a circular spot about 2 chains in diameter encompassed by a fosse or old stone ditch. Infants are to said to be sometimes interred in it' (OSNB Parish of Ratass, 43). Minute Book of the Co. Kerry Field Club (02 March 1940, Vol. 1, 85) - recorded that human bones were found in the field with the church (KE029-042001-) and enclosure (KE029-042002-). Earthwork depicted on 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map may have the been the boundary ditch of a burial ground associated with the church which was later reused as a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 June 2022
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.