What is recorded here

Infant Burying Ground is a children's burial ground in Killeglan,lugboy (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies an oval grass-covered area on a rise towards the bottom of an E-facing slope, bounded partly by a drystone wall that forms the townland boundary with Lugboy N-NE. Small cairns and grave-markers remain inside the enclosure, though no church structure is visible at the site.

On a rise towards the bottom of an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Oval grass-covered area (dims 34.6m NNE-SSW; 26.8m WNW-ESE) defined by a stone spread SSE-NNW, reduced to a stoney scarp elsewhere. A drystone wall is built on the perimeter SSE-W-ENE, forming the townland boundary with Lugboy N-NE, and extends outside the scarp elsewhere ENE-SSE, creating a rectangular enclosure (dims 34m NNE-SW; c. 34m WNW-ESE). There are small cairns and grave-markers in the interior, but there is no evidence of a church (RO050-007002-), which John O'Donovan writing in the 1830s suggested was known locally as Cill Fhiacláin or Cill Dhiacláin (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 24). However, a church at Killeglan was recorded in the 1650s (Simington 1949, 106). See the attached view taken from ENE Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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