What is recorded here

Burial Gd. for Children is a children's burial ground in County Limerick, Ireland, marked on the 1841 OS 6-inch map. It lies in rough pasture beside a shallow circular depression, with only a fragment of sandstone walling and a holed weathered stone still visible. The place may have been a quiet edge of a lost neighbourhood, where small lives were laid to rest before the land was taken for stone.

In pasture, atop low ridge in otherwise undulating terrain. Site is shown as unenclosed ovoid area (c. 20m x c. 10m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map on E side of depression. This depression is roughly circular area (58m N-S; 56.6m E-W) which slopes down unevenly towards centre (D 4m) and is covered by rough pasture. It appears to be the result of surface quarrying for stone. A field boundary runs along top edge of depression SW->ENE. There is no surface trace of burial plots on E side of depression. However, the corner of a stone-built structure remains atop scarp at ESE. This consists of a cut sandstone block which appears to be a quoin stone, and some very fragmentary walling attached to it. An irregularly-shaped weathered stone (H 0.65m; Wth 0.57m; D 0.25m, ) stands c 6m NNE of this structure. This has a circular hole (diam. 0.13m) drilled through it slightly off-centre. The site is named 'Burial Gd. for Children' on 1841 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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