What is recorded here

Cill na Leanbh marks a children's burial ground in Carrigillihy, County Cork, preserving small lives within a rectangular pasture terrace. Low mounds still break the grass, waiting for imagination to complete what fact has already named.

In pasture, on a terrace on a N-facing slope. A rectangular area (12m E-W; 8m N-S) enclosed by the intermittent remains of an earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) is according to local information a children's burial ground, known as Cill na Leanbh. Traces of low mounds indicate the graves. This is the children's burial ground recorded by O'Donoghue (1986, 43). 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

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