Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilduffahoo, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilduffahoo
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilduffahoo Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilduffahoo Grave Yard (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.64343, -8.30208
- SMR number
- LI015-008002-
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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
Situated immediately E of a public road and S of a deserted farmyard, on a S-facing slope in rolling pasture. Kilduffahoo graveyard consists of a sub-rectangular shaped area (c. 15m E-W; c. 25m N-S) covered by ground ivy, scrub and small woodland enclosed by low earthen bank. The E gable and part of the south wall of a ruined friary church (LI015-008001-) stands at N end of graveyard. A steep break in slope (H 0.5m, Wth 1.5m) of ground is visible at S end of graveyard. There are no gravemarkers or any sign of burials. According to Ordnance Survey letters this graveyard was used mainly as a children's burial ground. No visible remains of any inscribed memorials although the area is covered in scrub which may cover any such evidence.
Graveyard described in 1840 as following; 'This is the ruins of a Friary, about 60 feet [18.2m] long and 24 feet [7.3m] wide, with a portion of the walls 4 feet [1.2m] high. Attached to it is a small burial ground, on an eminence about 1 chain [20m] in diameter, used now chiefly for the interments of children' (OSNB, Doon parish, Book 2, 603).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.