What is recorded here

Kildromin in County Limerick, Ireland holds Shanakill, an old burial ground whose exact location remains unknown. The name means old keel or burial place, suggesting a quiet corner where ancestors were laid to rest before the land changed around them. People may have walked past graves marked only by memory, believing the dead still belonged to the soil even when no stone remained for visitors to find.

Not depicted on OSi historic maps. According to Lynch (1909-11, 186) 'there is an old burial ground at Kildromin, called Shanakill, or old keel or burial place'. The precise location of this burial ground within the townland of Kildromin has not been identified. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 August 2020

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