What is recorded here

Carrowntarriff holds a children's burial ground on a Roscommon rise, marked by a collapsed drystone wall and many grave-stones. Local memory claims burials continued until the end of the 19th century, turning a quiet grassy patch into a place where young lives still belong. The surviving wall stands barely two feet high, yet it encloses more than stone; it preserves the shock and tenderness of loss in a landscape that has kept moving around it.

On a rise in undulating landscape. Rectangular grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims 15.4m NE-SW; 13.7m NW-SE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall with some bushes, best preserved on the NE side with facing-stones (original Wth 0.9m; surviving H 0.65m). The interior has many grave-markers and there are local memories of burials occurring up to the end of the 19th century. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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