Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kyle, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kyle
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.85329, -6.46771
- SMR number
- WI033-020001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a marked N-facing slope. A rectangular graveyard (dims. 35m E-W; 50m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2-2.5m; H 1.3m), and named 'Kyle Grave Yard' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Price (1946, 93) states there was no trace of any church here, and suggests it may have been used for burying unbaptised children.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 September 2012
References
Price, L. 1946 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. II - The barony of Ballinacor South. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (55-106).
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.