Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballylaffin, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylaffin
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- TS087-039002-
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Power (1908, 70-71) within Ballylaffan townland there is a field called 'Faithche - "Hurling Green"; this is a field containing a cill, or early church site [TS087-039001-] and a burial ground three-fourths of an acre in area, in which unbaptised children continued to be buried till recently''. This burial ground is unlocated within the townland of Ballylaffan.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.