What is recorded here
Coinlín holds a children's burial ground called a cillíneach, yet no one points to the exact grass where small bones rest. The name itself admits the tragedy: a separate place for children means death came so often it needed its own container. Perhaps mothers walked a familiar path past adult graves to a quieter field, carrying swaddled bodies before dawn. The missing location does not diminish the fact; it preserves the vulnerability of infants who left no statues, no medals, no stories except the hole in the ground that accepted them.
According to local information, there is a 'cillíneach' or children's burial ground in Coinlín townland but its precise location is not known.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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