Childrens Burial Gd (Disused) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Children’s Burial Ground in County Cork, Ireland, still occupies a narrow pasture strip where an earthen bank and shallow scarp enclose a space barely twenty metres long. The 1842 Ordnance Survey map named it plainly, and small loose boulders scattered inside may have marked the youngest graves. That children were buried apart from adults in a visible, bounded place suggests a community that wanted to remember them separately rather than lose them in the general dead.

Marked 'Children's Burial Ground' on OS 6-inch map (1842). In pasture. Subrectangular area (8m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by earthen bank to N and scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. Some small loose boulders may be grave markers. 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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