Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilcurkree, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcurkree
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78245, -7.78466
- SMR number
- TN029-084----
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
Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. Depicted as a 'Children's Burial Ground' on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map and referred to in the OS Name Books (1840) as a graveyard for infants called 'faustemple'. No visible remains at ground level.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.