What is recorded here

Crag Grave Yd. is a circular children's burial ground in County Limerick, Ireland, still visible today as a faint twenty-metre outline north of the city. In 1840, the place was already known for holding only children, separating small deaths from adult graves and giving the yard its own quiet identity. That restriction suggests a community careful enough to mark childhood loss on its own, perhaps believing young spirits needed a smaller, clearer place to rest.

Burial ground known locally as 'Crag Grave Yard' described in 1840 as following; 'There is an old burial place in the townland of Cluain Chanáin (Cloon conan) about two miles to the north of the city in the parish of St. Munchin to the north of the city of Limerick, but only children are now interred in it' (OSL Vol. 1, 57). Outline of circular-shaped burial ground (approx. diam. 20m) visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2019

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