Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Coonagh West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coonagh West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Gd (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.66316, -8.68598
- SMR number
- LI005-004----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In small oblong-shaped green area situated between a farm laneway to SW and the driveway of a private dwelling to N. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped area (approx. 17m WNW-ESE; 11m NNE-SSW) defined by a perforated line and named ‘Children’s Burial Gd.’. The depiction is slightly altered on the revised 1938 ed. OS 25-inch map where it is shown as a triangular-shaped area (approx. 18m NNE-SSW; 27m WNW-ESE) named ‘Infants’ Burial Ground’. Visible as a cropmark of a rectangular-shaped area long-axis ESE-WNW on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2006.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 05/04/2006.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.