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Children's burial ground

Coolnamona, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Coolnamona, 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
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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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

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

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

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