What is recorded here
The following description is from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30329008# last accessed 6 February 2019): Letterfrack Industrial School graveyard, opened c.1890, containing marked burials of seventy-eight children, of whom…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA023-018
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, www.igp-web.com
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Dr. Charles Nelson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Photographer not named by Diamond Hill Community Centre, diamondhillcommunitycentre.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, visionsofthepastblog.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- Maker not stated on source page, ru.pinterest.com
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