
What is recorded here
Cloghfune holds a children's burial ground inside a possible rath, where occasional stone markers still break the soil. The small area measures twenty metres east-west and thirteen and a half metres north-south, giving the dead young ones a address they can still be found by. Local memory treats the stones as real even though no formal record names every child or date. That gap between fact and forgetting is what makes the place remain alive.
In a possible rath (CO127-038001-). According to local information, an area (20m E-W; 13.5m N-S) containing occasional stone grave-markers was used as a children's burial ground.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
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- What survives
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