What is recorded here

Kilcormick Burial Gd. is a children's grave yard on a sun-warmed slope beside Lough Conn, marked by tiny stone-lined holes and low upright stones that have watched the water for centuries. The ground sits slightly raised, bounded by old walls and a shallow scarp, as if the earth itself leaned forward to keep the small dead close. A bullaun stone built into the eastern wall hints that people once struck or poured water there, perhaps praying for children who never grew tall enough to be remembered by name.

Situated on a SE facing slope, 30m from an inlet on the SE shoreline of Lough Conn. Named ‘Kilcormac Grave Yard’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and ‘Killeencormack Burial Gd.’ on the 1922 edition,and listed by Aldridge (1969, 86-7) as a children’s burial ground. Slightly raised subtriangular area (28.3m NW-SE; 27.9m NNE-SSW) delimited in a broad curve at SSW−N by a low poorly defined scarp, and at E and S by linear field boundary walls. On the raised area are a considerable number of low, uninscribed upright stone gravemarkers. There are also a small number of tiny stone-lined graves. The burial ground may have been the site of a church (MA048-037001-). Built into the field boundary wall at E is a bullaun stone (see MA 048-037003-). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 March 2018

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its location on a prominent coastal slope suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, common for such tombs in the region.

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