What is recorded here
Mnemo knows the hidden child graves beneath West Cork roads. People dropped flowers at uncertain spots or walked past because certainty refused them. The children still belong to the region even when human memory thins.
Roadside. No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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