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"Easter Eve, 1910" was Saturday 26 March ...
via - www.calendar-12.com/holidays/easter/1910

National Library of Ireland on The Commons No, the photo is of Alfred Perceval Graves -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Perceval_Graves

Sometimes Flickr is amazing! Here is Francis Joseph Bigger, looking larger than life in a kilt,
via Irish Jesuits
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joseph_Bigger

“Francis Joseph Bigger (1863 – 9 December 1926[1][2]) was an Irish antiquarian, revivalist, solicitor, architect, author, editor, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. His collected library, now distributed across several public institutions, comprised more than 18,000 books, journals, letters, photographs, sketches, maps, and other materials. His house in Belfast was a gathering place for Irish nationalist politicians, artists, scholars, and others. He was a prolific sponsor and promoter of Gaelic culture, authored many works of his own, founded (or co-founded) several institutions, and revived and edited the Ulster Journal of Archaeology”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joseph_Bigger

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Another Gaffney headstone, we have seen their work before

Is it in Mr Gaffney's yard, hence the higgledy-piggledy-ness ?

5 August 1912 was a Monday ...

Mr Gaffney and the seven dwarfs stonemasons in his yard at Beresford street, Waterford in 1910 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000592393

beachcomber australia yes, I see the same corrugated shed at left, mossy roof at right, roof with two skylights behind

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Niall McAuley Well, this Mary is off to the opticians to get new pince-nez. You're dead right. It's Gaffney's yard, not a graveyard.

At least they were marked, unlike the children’s graveyard in an industrial school or cess pit of a mothers and child home

About 150m South West from Kenmare Stone Circle there is "Killeen Burial Ground (disused)" marked on the 25" map. I wonder if this is the place ?

"... Dotted across the countryside around us, and throughout Ireland, are the loneliest places on earth. These are the cillíní – the children’s graveyards. A cill (kill) is a monk’s cell or church site, cillín (killeen) is the diminutive and cillíní (killeenee) is the plural: small churches. Ironically, the cillíní despite their names were usually non-church sites. They were burial grounds reserved for unbaptised children (those who died before they could be baptised or were perhaps born out of wedlock), pregnant women (because they were carrying unbaptised children), unrepentant murderers, suicides, shipwreck victims and strangers – anyone, in short, who was not ‘saved’ or whose baptismal status was ambiguous or unknown. They were used into the twentieth century. ... ..."
From - roaringwaterjournal.com/2013/10/27/unknown-souls/

The days when limbo wasn't just a dance.

beachcomber australia I hope that is the place. It's good to think of the little graveyard being so close to a stone circle.

beachcomber australia This likely the correct place, on the bank of the River Finnihy (note spelling) as Killeen is derived from Cellini as you said.
“It appears that it has taken many years for Ireland to be no longer ashamed of Cillín, possibly facilitated and assisted by the passing of time since 1994 when the Catholic Church lifted the prohibition on unbaptised being buried in consecrated ground

The Schools Collection of the National Folklore Collection has many references to ‘Cillín’ and ‘Killeen’ which hopefully I will study in the coming weeks. The Irish Examiner noted in 2014 of some Cillíní being brought back and recognised by the community. It is reported that there are 1,444 Cillíní on the island of Ireland – my expectation would have been a significantly greater number”

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