Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Abbeyfeale West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyfeale West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Ground for Children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.36748, -9.31144
- SMR number
- LI042-008----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on NW-facing flank of hill. Roughly circular area (13.4m N-S; 11.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.75m) with no apparent openings. Road skirts outer base of bank on NW side. Interior slopes down to NW, following local terrain, and has an undulating surface under grass except along margins which are overgrown with bushes; loose stones are scattered over interior. According to local information a burial place for unbaptised children.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.