Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Garranroe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranroe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Old Graveyard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55404, -8.72592
- SMR number
- LI021-054----
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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
Annotated 'Site of Old Graveyard' on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map but not indicated on subsequent ed. OS maps. Westropp (1904-5, 381) recorded the following; 'Kyle, of Crancam . Same. Perhaps the Cromcon in charter of Magio, 1185. In Garranroe, Garranroo, in Cosmay, 1586
(C.S.P.L, p. 238). Site - A burial-place'. The Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that this 'Kyle or burial ground for children called Crann Cam, crooked tree, is situated in Garranroe townland' (OSL Vol. 2, 392).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 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.
Westropp, T.J. 1904-5 A survey of the ancient churches of Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25C, 327-479.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.