Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilgreana, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgreana
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39474, -8.31092
- SMR number
- LI049-082001-
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
Possible ringfort (LI049-082----) reused as a children's burial ground (LI049-082001-), in reclaimed pasture, 40m E of townland boundary with Curraghroche. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that this was ‘a fort in which tradition says abortive children were buried' (OSNB Doon to Kilbreedy, 200). Monument visible as a tree lined circular-shaped area, intersected at NE, SW and NW by field boundaries on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 5 October 2021
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.