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Infants Burial Ground — Rathmacan

Children's burial ground
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On the S bank of a stream with trees and scrub growing along both banks of the stream. Indicated on the 1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map as, 'Infants' Burial Ground' and described by Carrigan (1905, 497-8) as a graveyard, 'now used only for the burial of unbaptized children. Its name is Kyle-na-geawrlach (Cill na n-Geárlach) that is, the Churchyard (literally the Church,) of the Children'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 July 2020

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