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Children's burial ground

Gortavalla South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Gortavalla South, County Limerick, 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
Gortavalla South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Killacarrigeen Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Killacacarrieen Burial Ground (Site of)
Coordinates
52.59498, -8.29647
SMR number
LI015-038----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a disused quarry. Indicated on the 1927 OS 6-inch map as 'Killacarrigeen Burial Ground (site of)', located in a quarry. There is no evident trace of the burial ground and the area it occupied has been quarried away. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described 'Kyle a Chorrigeen' as following; 'There is a limestone rock, about 4 chains [80m] in diameter, in which children were interred in the past; but this practice appears to have been abandoned. There is a Trigl. Station on it at present' (OSNB Doon Parish, 593).

Compiled by: Denis Power

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 24 September 2020

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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