What is recorded here

Kylecaumery (Site of) is a children's burial ground in Carrigatogher (harding), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupied a natural hillock at the old turnpike of Carrickatogher, where the mail-coach road to Limerick met the road to Silvermines. The hill was removed in 1810 to build the coach road from Nenagh to Limerick, exposing many human bones and coffin boards that marked the buried children. No visible remains stay at ground level today.

Situated on a natural hillock in undulating countryside. According to the OS Letters this was located at the old turnpike of Carrickatogher, at the junction of the old mail-coach road to Limerick with the road to Silvermines (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 115). Described in the OS Namebooks (c. 1840) as ' “Kyleaumery”, 'a fort (TN020-066002) situated on a small hill which was taken away in the year 1810 to make the present coach road from Nenagh to Limerick. There were a great number of human bones found here at that time as well as the boards of coffins from which it is evident this was a burial ground in former times'. No visible remains at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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