Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyfeerode, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfeerode
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground (Disused) (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.33755, -8.39056
- SMR number
- LI057-023----
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 improved pasture 575m W of the Ahnalushnia Stream that marks the townland boundary with Kilgarriff. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Infants' Burial Gd.’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is shown as a sub-rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 17m NE-SW; 13m NW-SE). Annotated ‘Infants' Burial Gd. (Disused)’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Small hollow depression and faint outline of levelled burial ground visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.