What is recorded here
Corrigeen, a court tomb in Ballymacredmond, served as a children's burial ground before its graves vanished from memory and soil alike. The loss is not empty; it is a shape of absence, like a room cleared but still holding the pressure of bodies and breath. Forgetting did not erase the children. It returned them to the dark living tissue of the world, where love and loss continue moving without witness.
At a court tomb (MA039-098001). Aldridge (1969, 86) recorded that the court tomb, which was known locally as 'Corrigeen', was used as a children's burial ground. No graves are now evident.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 January 2015
Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period. Its use as a children's burial ground highlights local funerary practices associated with megalithic tombs in Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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