Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Coolnamona, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnamona
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killarragon Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56248, -8.23620
- SMR number
- LI025-008----
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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
On a very slight NE-facing slope, in pasture with good views from NW-N. The Dead River lies 22m to S and forms a townland boundary with Lisnacullia and a tributary lies 30m to E, forming a townland boundary with Ayle. Annotated ‘Killarragon Burial Ground’ on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork or platform (diam. 20m). Monument described in 1840 as a 'small burial ground placed in a green valley and on the bank of the Dead River. It is circular, and about 2 chains in diameter, being no higher than the surrounding surface. It is green and is now used rarely as a burial place save for young children. The only appearance of a graveyard that it has at present is a few stones standing perpendicular and forming a circle' (OSNB Castletown Parish, 353).
Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as raised subcircular-shaped area (26.5m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.2m; H 0.3m) which has a kerb best visible from S-W-N-NE and faint elsewhere. Some rectangular-shaped slabs (L 1.25m; Wth 0.5m; T 0.25m) are laid upright on their long edge at NW and N. There are also large and small slabs lying flat on the scarp from NW-N-NE. The interior has a slight NE-facing slope and is dry. A loose arrangement of stones is situated in the centre and a large slab (L 1m; Wth 0.5m; T 0.2m) lies propped on a smaller stone. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (33m N-S; 30m E-W) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 11/03/2014.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 11/03/2011
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 October 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.
Hynes, G. C. (ed.) 1990 Dún Bleisce: a history. Cumann Forbartha Dhún Bleisce.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.