Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gullaun West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gullaun West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10748, -9.28893
- SMR number
- KE060-004003-
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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
On or near the outer bank of a ring-barrow (KE060-004001-). According to local information, the outer bank of the ring-barrow along the S arc was used for the burial of unbaptised infants. There are no visible remains of any graves or grave-markers here but there is a hawthorn tree close by.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.