Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gowlane (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gowlane (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14199, -9.57322
- SMR number
- KE048-113002-
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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 a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KE048-113001-), c. 10m inside the bank of the enclosure at S. A roughly rectangular raised area (14m N-S; 13m E-W; H 0.35m) containing low uninscribed stone grave-markers (H 0.2m) set intermittently throughout the area. In the 1940s it was recorded that unbaptized children were buried here and that the field was called 'Páirc na Cille' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry), the name by which it is still known. There is an ogham stone (KE048-113003-) in the NW corner of the children's burial ground. (Dennehy 2001, 20-23)
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.