What is recorded here

Children's burial ground in Church Island is a children's burial ground in Church Island, County Roscommon, Ireland. Five metres outside the W doorway of Inchmacnerin church, a five-metre square holds rows of uninscribed grave-markers placed one metre apart. No written account explains whose children they were or when they died. The stones remain quiet evidence that the church kept a separate ground for the youngest dead.

Five metres outside the W doorway of Inchmacnerin church (RO006-006001-) on Church Island. An area (dims c. 5m E-W; c. 5m N-S) has rows of uninscribed grave-markers placed c. 1m apart, but there are no references to its use. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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