Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Headfort, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Headfort
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KE067-065----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the 1940s a burial ground was recorded 'in Páirc an tSéipéil where unbaptised children were buried' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Its precise location is not known and it may be in that part of the townland which is on OS 6-inch sheet 68.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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