What is recorded here

Grave Yard holds unmarked child graves beside a ruined medieval church on the Shannon floodplain in County Offaly. Its stone bank still stands about fifty centimetres high, enclosing a small rectangular area where rows of upright markers cut through the grass. Children may have been laid there after the church stopped serving the living, their names erased but their shape in the earth preserved.

Situated on a low rock outcrop on the low-lying floodplains of the river Shannon. A small rectangular church (OF013-007001-). The church is situated within a roughly square shaped area (33m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by a bank of earth and stones (Wth. 1.5m; ext. H. 0.5m) which is best preserved at N elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. There are rows of upright unmarked stones aligned in N/S rows in the S sector of the enclosure. These are the grave-markers of unbaptised children according to the ITA Survey (1942). Graveyard associated with the medieval church ruins that may have been re-used as a childrens burial ground in the post medieval period. 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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