Children's burial ground

The National Monuments Service's description

The children's burial ground marked on the OS 6-inch map as 'Relicnapastia' was located in the sub-triangular shaped field located immediately NW of Carrick Cross which was used as a mass rock (WM016-024----) during penal times. In 1837 the Ordnance Survey recorded that the Relicnapastia was 'a small field of triangular form field' (OSNB). Small D-shaped or sub-triangular shaped field (approx. dims. 57m E-W x 49m N-S) depicted on OS 6-inch map marked the site of a children's burial ground known as 'Relicnapastia' located immediately NW of Carrick Cross which was used as a mass rock (WM016-024----) during penal times. This burial ground was surveyed and described in 1980 when it recorded that this site was 'Not marked as an antiquity by the OS. It was sited on a slight natural rise. The adjoining enclosure now destroyed was a burial ground although no burials have taken place here since the turn of the century' (SMR file). Described in 1979 as 'The site is a slight natural rise on the top of a high prominent hill of good pasture. Excellent views in all directions. There is no visible trace of an antiquity at the site of the cross [Carrick Cross] that was used as a mass rock (WM016-024----) during penal times'. No surface remains visible of levelled burial ground and no evidence of any grave markers in area where burial ground was located. Faint cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.

Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 11 September 2018

References

OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.