Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Coolanoran, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolanoran
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kyle Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 52.48456, -9.00146
- SMR number
- LI028-152----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In flat pasture, surrounded by lower marshy ground NE->E. Sub-rectangular area (18.5m NE-SW; 10.5m NW-SE) defined by scarp (H 0.3m). Scarp most well-defined W->N with slight dip at ENE and heap of earth and stone (H 0.2m; 2m x 2m) at WSW. Interior used as feeding area for cattle. No trace of any gravemarkers. Named 'Kyle Burial Ground' on 1841 OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.