What is recorded here

Children's Burial Ground in County Cork stopped receiving the dead before 1903, when surveyors first marked it disused. The abandoned plot still holds a collapsed rubble wall, five contiguous slabs, and loose stones that may have covered infant graves. It sits eight metres from a bullaun stone and thirty-five metres from an underground passage, linking childhood death to older local beliefs about water, rocks, and hidden ways through the earth.

Shown as oval area (c. 25m E-W; c. 15m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; shown as rectangular area and marked 'disused' on 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Slightly raised irregular area (18m N-S; 16m E-W) defined on W side by bank of rubble (possibly collapsed wall) and by line of five contiguous slabs on NNW side. Interior covered with loose stones; some uninscribed gravemarkers noted. Bullaun stone (9231) 8m to SW; Man-made underground passage (9060) c. 35m to S. 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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