Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Stagmount, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stagmount
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd. (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.07090, -9.29686
- SMR number
- KE068-004001-
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 pasture, on a S-facing slope, with views S to The Paps of Dana. A raised rectangular area (18m E-W; 12m N-S), overgrown with bushes and briars, which according to local information was used for the burial of unbaptised babies during the famine times. Some stones, which may be grave-markers, were noted on the uneven surface of the raised area. It is named 'Children's Burial Ground' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. This is the children's burial ground which was recorded in the 1940s in 'Páirc an tSéipéil' in Houlihan's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). A possible church (KE068-004004-) exists in the same field. A rath (KE068-103----) lies c. 90m to the NNE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.