What is recorded here

Children's burial ground in Skeheenaranky is a children's burial ground in Skeheenaranky, County Tipperary, Ireland. Local tradition identifies the site as a children's burial ground. The oval rubble wall stands on a steep north-east facing slope above the Sheep River, with a narrow opening in its south-east section and collapsed stones scattered across the wet, rushy interior.

On a break of a NE-facing slope, at the edge of a precipice, beyond which the ground falls fairly steeply NE down to the Sheep River in a gorge below. In wet, rough upland pasture with a lot of reeds in the field. A small oval enclosure (int. diam. 6.5m N-S; 5.4m E-W; ext. diam. 11.2m N-S; 8.1m E-W) delimited by a rubble stone wall (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.75m), largely overgrown with grass and moss. The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is in the SE quadrant. There are some collapsed stones near the entrance in the interior which is quite wet and very rushy. According to local tradition this is a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

A Neolithic children's burial ground; significant as a rare example of a specialised burial site for infants and young children, providing insight into Neolithic funerary practices and social attitudes towards childhood.

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