tombstones

Dunno if this will work for everyone - pigeonview 3D - www.google.com/maps/@53.3433095,-6.2687834,62a,35y,180h,3...

Sometimes flickr is amazing! via David Doyle And a wonderful and unusual collection of photos of the church interior via Dave Kennedy [https://www.flickr.com/photos/davekennedy/sets/72157639828071805]

As I am now so will you be... Remember death a nd pray for me

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

What does that grave inscription say?

The Family Burying Ground of M[ajor?] S[irr?] And Humphry Minchin 179[9?]

(Or something like that?)

See also www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/4010230662/

Thanks for pointing to that other pic, pellethepoet. It's one of my faves!

my great grandparents x5 are in there, they where first fleeters and i cant go visit them because there is a bloody train station on top of them

Stephania Rose Bray-Smith Hi StephaniaRose, all of the graves were carefully relocated to other burial grounds throughout Sydney. Unclaimed remains - the vast majority - were relocated to Bunnerong Cemetery, now known as Pioneer Memorial Park. I'm sure you'll find your ancestors there. If they were First Fleeters, it is likely they had already been moved once before, from the old burial ground where the Town Hall now stands, to Devonshire Street above.

This would be from Devonshire Street looking North-west towards the Town Hall? StephaniaRose: they may be in Newtown cemetery, or the Camperdown memorial park outside the cemetery wall. A lot of bodies from Town Hall and Devonshire street were moved there (by special tram!)

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”

readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/remembering-the-cillini-t...