Children's burial ground

The National Monuments Service's description

Church ruins (LI029-056001-) known locally as Temple Beinid is depicted standing in E quadrant of rectangular shaped burial ground (approx. dims. 23m N-S x 36m E-W) on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. This burial ground was described in 1840 as a place where 'Only children are buried here now. About thirty yards [27m] to the southwest of this building is a well called Tobar Beinid, that is Beinid's Well [LI029-056003-]' (OSL, 62). The boundary of this burial ground is only indicated on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map where the holy well is shown lying outside the boundary of the burial ground. Today the church ruins stand inside a larger rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 39m N-S x 58m E-W) which includes the children's burial ground and the holy well. No gravemarkers visible inside this enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photographs.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 22 January 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.