What is recorded here
Children's burial ground in Kilparteen is a children's burial ground in Kilparteen, County Tipperary, Ireland. The 1840 OS Letters claim Kilparteen took its name from this child burial ground and that it remained in existence then. The ground is still unlocated within the townland.
According to the OS Letters (1840) 'It is said that Kilparteen (Cill Feartín) took its name from a burial ground for children situated in it. It is said to be still in existence' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.3, 23).
Children's burial ground is unlocated within the townland.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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