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Margaret Euphemia Homann formerly Imrie Born 4 Jul 1873 in Brisbane, Queensland, ANCESTORS ancestors Daughter of Alexander Imrie and Margaret (Aitkinson) Imrie Sister of Eliza McInroy (Imrie) Buhr, John Peter Alexander Imrie, Richard Aitkinson Imrie, Ann Aitkinson Imrie, Robert William Imrie and Benjamin Walter Imrie Wife of Herman Otto Homann — married 1900 in Queensland, [children unknown] Died 4 Mar 1943 at age 69 in Brisbane, Queensland, Source: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Imrie-77

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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"DEATH OF THE REV. DR. ROWE. A NOTABLE CAREER. A host of personal friends and Methodists throughout Australia will learn with deep regret that the Rev. Dr. George E. Rowe, superintendent minister of the Albert-street Methodist Church, died suddenly on October 27. Dr. Rowe had been attending the Methodist Synod at Nundah, and subsequently made a call on a sick parishioner. After leaving the home of this resident he complained of being very unwell, and was conveyed by a friend back to the parishioner's residence, where he died shortly afterward. The late Rev. Dr. Rowe, who was 68 years of age, was born in Scorrier, Cornwall, on August 26, 1858, to humble parents. He received his early training at one of the English Wesleyan Colleges and came out to Australia as a very young man. His first appointment was to South Australia in 1881, and after spending several years leading South Australian circuits he was transferred to Western Australia at the time that the gold rush occurred in that State. He was appointed to the Perth circuit, where he spent 13 years, and where he built a fine church and a splendid block of buildings that stand today as a monument to his organizing ability. It was while he was engaged in the Western State that he inaugurated the Sisters of the People, and during the epidemic of typhoid that spread throughout the country, he sent Sisters to every part of the State to nurse the people. He was elected the first President of the West Australian Methodist Conference in 1900. His mission work in Western Australia was very successful, and in 1905 he received an invitation to become superintendent of the Central Methodist Mission, Albert-street, Brisbane. His work in that church is well known throughout Queensland, and its progress was steadily maintained during the 20½ years that he ministered there. His love for his church was deep-rooted and true. One of his ambitions was to see it clear of debt, and he lived to see that accomplished last Sunday when the 79th anniversary of the church was celebrated." - from the Queenslander 06 Nov 1926 (nla.gov.au) Source: vwma.org.au/explore/people/310401