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Children's Burial Ground is a small cemetery of uncertain date located in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 14106. The site lies upon bedrock of the Owenkillew Sandstone Group, Carboniferous strata comprising interbedded sandstone and argillaceous rocks deposited during the Osagean period, which characterises the local geology of this part of the Sperrins foothills.
The monument belongs to a class of burial site commonly known as a killeen or children's burial ground. Such sites are typically small graveyards, often associated with unbaptised children or infants who could not be interred in consecrated churchyards under medieval and early modern ecclesiastical law. The precise chronology of this particular example remains uncertain, though its form suggests it may date from the medieval or post-medieval period.
No detailed archaeological record of excavation or finds from the site is currently available. The burial ground survives as an archaeological monument and represents an important aspect of social and religious practice in the local community across several centuries. Its location in Strabane reflects patterns of settlement and belief in the wider region.
Childrens burial ground. graveyard / killeen is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14106. View the official record →
Children's Burial Ground is a small cemetery of uncertain date located in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14106.
Childrens burial ground. graveyard / killeen dates from the uncertain period, and is classified as a graveyard. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Childrens burial ground. graveyard / killeen is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 14106.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wedge tomb (7 km), Chambered grave, cloghogle. court tomb (7.1 km), Ballyrenan chambered grave, cloghogle. portal tomb (7.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Childrens burial ground. graveyard / killeen's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Childrens burial ground. graveyard / killeen stands on Owenkillew Sandstone Group, bedrock that formed in the Osagean. The rock here is sandstone and [subequal/subordinate] argillaceous rocks, interbedded.