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Children's burial ground

Killeen (Ardagh By.), County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Killeen, County Longford, 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
Killeen (Ardagh By.)
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64019, -7.61768
SMR number
LF020-033001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · 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

Associated with a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF020-033----). It is locally believed that the enclosure is the site of a children's burial ground, a suggestion reinforced by the townland name. However, no grave-markers are visible. (Crawford 1926, 124-5)

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 7 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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