Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Skeheenaranky, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeheenaranky
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33320, -8.15422
- SMR number
- TS080-008----
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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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a break of a NE-facing slope, at the edge of a precipice, beyond which the ground falls fairly steeply NE down to the Sheep River in a gorge below. In wet, rough upland pasture with a lot of reeds in the field. A small oval enclosure (int. diam. 6.5m N-S; 5.4m E-W; ext. diam. 11.2m N-S; 8.1m E-W) delimited by a rubble stone wall (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.75m), largely overgrown with grass and moss. The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is in the SE quadrant. There are some collapsed stones near the entrance in the interior which is quite wet and very rushy. According to local tradition this is a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.