What is recorded here

Children's Burial Ground in County Cork is a disused roughly square stone-walled area containing upright slabs, a bullaun stone, and conifers. Local tradition connects the wider landscape to St. Gobnait, including a road-side slab where she is said to have prayed. The place is small, quiet and marked by loss, with children's deaths belonging at its centre rather than hidden behind a generic graveyard label.

Named 'Graveyard for Children' and 'Children's Burial Gd.' on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps respectively. Site forms NE quadrant of possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (9205). Roughly square area (c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) enclosed by low stone wall. Interior uneven, sloping down to SE and planted with conifers. On E side, rectangular setting of 5 upright slabs, open to E; on W side, two upright stones, long axis N-S; in SW corner, bullaun stone (9226). Second bullaun stone (9227) c. 30m S of burial ground. Rounds made here on St. Gobnait's day. Stone slab (2m x 0.9m) lying in verge of road c. 350m to ESE is locally associated with St. Gobnait, who is said to have prayed on this spot. 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

Early medieval Christian burial site, likely associated with a monastic or ecclesiastical settlement. Its dedicated use for children's burials suggests possible ritual or social significance within the local community.

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