What is recorded here

Kilduffahoo Grave Yard is a children's burial ground in County Limerick, Ireland, where a ruined friary church still stands at the north end. The small slope is hidden beneath ground ivy and scrub, with no visible markers, yet local memory holds that infants and young children were laid to rest there beside the old stone walls. What is missing is not emptiness but time, since age and weather have returned the place to soil and shadow.

Situated immediately E of a public road and S of a deserted farmyard, on a S-facing slope in rolling pasture. Kilduffahoo graveyard consists of a sub-rectangular shaped area (c. 15m E-W; c. 25m N-S) covered by ground ivy, scrub and small woodland enclosed by low earthen bank. The E gable and part of the south wall of a ruined friary church (LI015-008001-) stands at N end of graveyard. A steep break in slope (H 0.5m, Wth 1.5m) of ground is visible at S end of graveyard. There are no gravemarkers or any sign of burials. According to Ordnance Survey letters this graveyard was used mainly as a children's burial ground. No visible remains of any inscribed memorials although the area is covered in scrub which may cover any such evidence. Graveyard described in 1840 as following; 'This is the ruins of a Friary, about 60 feet [18.2m] long and 24 feet [7.3m] wide, with a portion of the walls 4 feet [1.2m] high. Attached to it is a small burial ground, on an eminence about 1 chain [20m] in diameter, used now chiefly for the interments of children' (OSNB, Doon parish, Book 2, 603). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

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