Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cappanahanagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanahanagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.66940, -8.42338
- SMR number
- LI006-030----
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 1838 the Ordnance Survey Letters for Abington parish recorded the following details; 'Killeen, in Irish Cillín, a burial place for children is situated in the west part of Cappanahannagh Townland within a green field, and measures about thirty feet [10m] in diameter' (OSL, 126).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.