What is recorded here

Children's burial ground in Ballincurry is a children's burial ground in Ballincurry, County Sligo, Ireland. The flat-topped grass mound sits in pasture near Ballylaur and served as a children's burial ground until the early twentieth century. Local information says the mound was partially levelled in the 1980s after stone grave-markers were visible there. Adult human bones exposed during 1940s road building were reburied beside the mound, leaving a visible grass-covered depression.

In pasture, c. 200m E of Ballylaur. A flat-topped roughly rectangular grass-covered mound (15m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.75m) with broadly sloping sides known locally as a 'killeen'. According to local information, it was used as a children's burial ground with the last interments taking place in the early 20th century. Also according to local information, the mound was partially levelled in the 1980s and prior to that several stone grave-markers had been visible. During road building in the 1940s, a hole was dug to extract gravel immediately to S of the mound and several adult human bones were exposed which were later reburied; a grass-covered depression is now visible in this area. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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