What is recorded here
Children's Burial Gd: unknown child deaths, likely seasonal or travel-related. Overlooked harbour, exposed slope, pasture use. Small area suggests limited duration or community. No markers means memory lived in story, not stone.
In pasture, on break in SE-facing slope overlooking Rincolisky Harbour. Shown as oval area on OS 6-inch map (1842). Irregular area (17m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by light overgrowth; scarp (H c. 0.3m) to SSE. No grave markers noted.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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