What is recorded here

Children’s Burial Ground in County Cork is a level subcircular pasture, shaped by a two-and-a-half-metre scarp and fence, with no markers left to identify the dead. The 1842 map named it plainly, and the earth still holds what the grass has swallowed.

Marked 'Children's Burial Ground' on OS 6-inch map (1842). In pasture. Subcircular area (32m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by scarp (H 2.5m) SE->SW and field fence SW->NW. Interior level; cut into hillside to N; raised on S side (H 2.5m) to compensate for hillslope. 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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