Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Maughantoorig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maughantoorig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11617, -9.28716
- SMR number
- KE060-030003-
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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 pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope. In the 1940s it was recorded that 'unbaptised children were buried here' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). According to local information, the burial ground occupies the NE corner of a field and is adjacent to a large boulder, known locally as the 'Fairy Stone' (KE060-030002-). Traces of cultivation ridges abut the field boundary on the N side of the field. According to local information, the digging of the ridges was abandoned when those digging developed sore hands which was said to be due to interfering with the burial ground. According to Dennehy (1997, 170), this land has 'since been used only for pasture'. There is a ring-barrow (KE060-030001-) c. 15m to the E, in the adjacent field.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.