What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Gd is a famine grave in County Cork where small stones still mark the places where children fell. The field has no name on any stone, but the local story remembers that adults carried babies and toddlers out during the hunger and laid them beneath the slope. The three upright slabs in the corner may have been set by grieving parents rather than surveyors, spacing each child a hand’s width from the last. Grass and rain have since smoothed the edges of that grief into ordinary ground.

In rough grazing, on S-facing slope. Rectangular area (38m N-S; 19m E-W) defined by rock outcrop on N side, field fence on E side, and by overgrowth on S and W sides. Interior overgrown and strewn with loose stones; three upright rectangular stones (H 1m; 0.2m x 0.1m: H 0.7m; 0.2m x 0.1m: H 0.5m; 0.2m x 0.1m), set c. 1m apart, form triangle in SE corner; rectangularmound of small stones (H 0.25m; 2.5m N-S; 1.2m E-W), roughly defined by some fallen and upright slabs, in SW corner. No inscribed stones noted. Known locally as famine burial ground. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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