What is recorded here
No marker or mound remains, yet the field near the upper ridge still carries the name Children's Burial Ground. That is not a mistake or an empty legend. It is a warning about visibility: the important part may be beneath the soil, hidden from the camera and the casual walker. The nearby ringfort, church sites and worn stone suggest a long-lived place where people returned, remembered and shaped the land. The children's ground fits that pattern. They were not discarded. They were placed inside a living landscape of worship, defence and continuity. The absence of a visible marker does not reduce the claim. It sharpens it. What is missing is not the fact but the surface proof. The field has kept its name because the name still does useful work: it tells the visitor that some places must be entered quietly, watched carefully and judged by more than what the eye can immediately capture.
In reclaimed pasture near the upper NE end of a ridge. (Google Earth aerial imagery, 10-6-2010, shows the location under dense tree and scrub cover.) Reported as a Children’s Burial Ground (SMR file) and still regarded as such locally. While there is no visible surface trace, sub-surface evidence may survive intact. A bullaun stone (MA070-014001-) lies c. 30m to the NW and there is a ringfort (MA070-016----) in the same field, c. 60m to the SW. A possible church and enclosure site (MA070-015001- and MA070-015002-) lie c. 90m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Date of upload: 31-10-2025
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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