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Children's burial ground in Dromagarraun

Children's burial ground

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Dromagarraun in County Limerick held a children's burial ground for unbaptized infants, a brutal reminder that local churches still excluded the smallest victims of mortality from sacred soil. The exact spot has vanished, but the name preserves the wound: parents lost babies, prayer failed to arrive in time, and the community buried what it could not save.
According to Begley (1906, 110) there is a burial ground for 'unbaptized children' in this townland; exact location of site not known. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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