Overview
Burial Ground — Corballis is recorded as Children's burial ground in Kildare. Burial ground associated with Corballis Church (KD038-048----) located 30m to N, may have originally been a circular-shaped graveyard that was levelled c. fourteen years ago, and the area has been ploughed. No surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Who made it and when
The saved account records: Burial ground associated with Corballis Church (KD038-048----) located 30m to N, may have originally been a circular-shaped graveyard that was levelled c. fourteen years ago, and the area has been ploughed.
How it was made and used
The saved account records: Fitzgerald (1903-05, 370-1) recorded that this site was used as a burial ground for unbaptised children and described the site as following
What was found
The saved account records: Burial ground depicted on 25-inch OS map as a semi-circular shaped area bisected at N by a public road running E-W with church to N of road.
What remains
The saved account records: No surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Why it mattered
Burial Ground — Corballis matters because a belief or tradition is tied to this exact place and forms part of its local memory. The source records: 'The land for some distance around is never tilled, as the building is said to have been a chapel (KD038-048----) in ancient times The tradition is kept as a recorded belief; it is not silently turned into literal fact.
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