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Children's burial ground

Athea Upper, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Athea Upper, 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
Athea Upper
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Killeen Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Killeen Childrens Burial Gd. (1923)
Coordinates
52.45493, -9.31338
SMR number
LI034-001----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Possible ringfort (LI034-001001-) reused as a children's burial ground. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Egg-shaped area enclosed by broad eroded earthen bank with external fosse SW->NW. Field boundary truncates enclosing bank at narrowest point to E. Interior slopes down gently towards centre; no visible surface trace of burials or burial markers.
In 1838 the Ordnance Survey Name Books recorded that in the townland of Athea Upper. A large fort (LI034-001001-), in which children, who die without baptism, are buried' (OSNB Rathronan Parish, 1482).

Compiled by: Denis Power

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 20 May 2019

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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.

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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