Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Caher (Connell), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caher (Connell)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.33376, -9.27902
- SMR number
- LI051-003----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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
On S-facing slope immediately above dip into river valley. Roughly D-shaped area enclosed on straight W side by field boundary and defined N->S by scarped edge (H 0.55m). Uneven interior under grass, but no evidence for burial plots. According to local tradition last burial here in 1922 and previously was used as 'famine' burial ground. Not depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.