Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killacolla (connello Upper By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killacolla (connello Upper By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.39979, -8.75196
- SMR number
- LI046-014----
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 wooded area behind farmyard; in generally level pasture. Circular area (9.5m N-S; 9.5m E-W) defined NW->NE and E->SW by scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 6m), creating level platform but without a defining edge NE->E and SW->NW. Entire area densely overgrown by trees and bushes. Interior surface strewn with loose stones but no identifiable graves or gravemarkers evident.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.