What is recorded here
Carrownaknockaun holds a children's burial ground on low-lying ground beside a NW-SE stream, though no bones have ever appeared to prove the claim. The place still carries that tender, terrible possibility: small bodies given to damp earth while adults watched from a distance. Gannon (1972) repeated the local belief without finding evidence, and the absence itself deepens the story. A child's burial ground may be less a fact than a warning the land learned to remember.
On low-lying ground with a NW-SE stream c. 200m to the NE. Gannon (1972) notes that rath (RO013-014001-) may have been used as a children's burial ground, but there is no evidence of burial.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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