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Children's burial ground

Gortshanavogh, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Gortshanavogh, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gortshanavogh
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.18058, -9.51998
SMR number
KE048-115----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In low-lying pasture, in the grounds of Kerry Airport. This possible children's burial ground is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 20m). A single tree indicates its location on the 1897 OS 6-inch map. Its levelled remains were described by O'Hare (1997, 12-13) as a roughly rectangular area (19.5m N-S; 11.5m E-W) defined by a low rise (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) with hawthorn bushes growing immediately outside it at NE. A number of low stones, extending in a N-S line for c. 1.65m, were noted immediately inside the low rise at N (ibid.). O'Hare (1997, 12) was informed locally that this earthwork is believed to be a children's burial ground and that rows of stones which were visible in it in the past were assumed to be grave-markers.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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