What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Gd. is a small earthen mound inside an old ringfort on a ridge in County Offaly, Ireland. Local information calls it a childrens burial ground, though no burial has been positively identified. The mound is only half a metre high and sits in the northeast part of the fort, where the land rises above open countryside. It is the kind of place where loss would have been hidden in ordinary earth, yet remembered because the shape still shows.

Univallate ringfort (max. int. diam. 43.5m E-W) situated on summit of N-S ridge E face and defined by a fosse and internal bank of earth and stone. Ramped entrance at SE. No evidence of burial but small mound (diam. 4.5m N-S, H c. 0.5m) in NE quadrant may have some connection. Located on the E facing slope of a N-S ridge in upland area with good views of undulating countryside. Bivallate ringfort (OF010-016002-) with small earthen mound located in the N sector of the sites interior which according to local information is the site of a childrens burial ground. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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