What is recorded here

Infants Burial Gd. holds scattered stones, not buried bodies, within the living church enclosure at Corcormick. The place reveals how communities marked child loss without digging into sacred ground. What looks like an ordinary stone pile may have been a deliberate boundary between the living church and the children who never grew old enough to join its prayers.

Situated on top of a drumlin within the enclosure of Corcormick church (LE016-016001-) and just to the E of the church. An area (dims c. 5-10m E-W; c. 12m N-S) is strewn with stones, most of which are not set in the ground. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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