Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Townparks (upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (upper Dundalk By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.00900, -6.40465
- SMR number
- LH007-119033-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during archaeological test trenching (Excavation Licence No. 99E0737). At N end of Laurels Road, the disarticulated remains of at least three infants were uncovered in garden soil, dating to the 17th-18th century. Known locally as burial ground for unbaptised children. (Lynch, 2002, 229)
Reference:
Lynch, R. 2002 Townparks, Dundalk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 229 (No. 680). Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.