Children's burial ground in Ardura Beg — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

A local tradition from Ardura Beg, County Cork, holds that a cillin for children lay beneath the field south of the old Skibbereen to Ballydehob road. The modern N71 now passes over that forgotten ground, carrying travellers past the buried little ones without a marker to slow them. What is lost is not whether they were placed there, but whether they are still remembered when the road covers them.

Information on this monument supplied by William Casey on 2 April 2013. He describes a 'local tradition that says a cillin was located in a field at the north of Ardura Beg. It was located in a field to the south of the Skibbereen to Ballydehob road. The modern N71 road passed over the site.' Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 April 2013

A cillin (children's burial ground), likely medieval or later in date, associated with local tradition and used for the burial of unbaptised or stillborn children. Its significance lies in reflecting historical religious practices and community attitudes towards child death in rural Ireland.

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