Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Rathmacan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmacan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 52.63851, -7.47946
- SMR number
- KK018-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the S bank of a stream with trees and scrub growing along both banks of the stream. Indicated on the 1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map as, 'Infants' Burial Ground' and described by Carrigan (1905, 497-8) as a graveyard, 'now used only for the burial of unbaptized children. Its name is Kyle-na-geawrlach (Cill na n-Geárlach) that is, the Churchyard (literally the Church,) of the Children'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 July 2020
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.