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Children's burial ground

Kilkinlea Lower, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Kilkinlea Lower, 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
Kilkinlea Lower
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Killeen Burial Ground for Children
Latest-edition OS map
Childrens Burial Ground (1923)
Coordinates
52.36148, -9.34079
SMR number
LI042-007----

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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)
  • 1841 · 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

In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Circular area (50.2m N-S; 50.3m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 0.7m) NNW->SW and defined by scarped edge (H c. 0.5m) SW->NNW. Stone wall, on N-S axis, skirts base of scarp WSW->WNW. Level interior under pasture, no visible surface trace of grave markers or burial plots. Nothing appears to be known of the site's history (Westropp 1904-5, 404); according to local information site of famine burial ground.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Westropp, T.J. 1904-5 A survey of the ancient churches of Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25C, 327-479.

Nearby in the register

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

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