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Children's burial ground

Ballymanagh, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Ballymanagh, 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
Ballymanagh
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Childrens Burial Ground
Coordinates
51.91184, -10.31878
SMR number
KE079-077----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (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

Children's Burial Ground: This site is located on the lower S slopes of Coombe Hill, Valencia Island, and overlooks Portmagee Channel and the mainland beyond. It is located in the SW corner of a large field, and abuts the townland boundary at W. Consisting of a raised area of earth and stone of approximately square plan, 13m N-S x 12.5m E-W, it rises to a maximum of 0.6m above external ground level. A stony bank measuring 7.5m long traverses the site E-W, near its N limit. Just outside its SE comer is a stony mound of irregular plan which measures 3m x 2.3m. The surface of the site is occupied by a number of quartz blocks and about eighty upright grave-markers, most of which are arranged in N-S rows; these average 0.35m high and 0.25m wide. A few instances of paired uprights, with prostrate slabs in between, are visible.

The above description is derived from O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. (compilers) 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University press. (1996), no. 982. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 18 June 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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