Archaeological survey through ... #folklore:
New study sheds light on #Ireland's #cillíní - unconsecrated burial grounds used for babies that were stillborn, miscarried or who died at birth without been baptised.
🏺 www.atu.ie/news/forgott...
TW: stillbirth, miscarriage, child death.
New study sheds light on #Ireland's #cillíní - unconsecrated burial grounds used for babies that were stillborn, miscarried or who died at birth without been baptised.
🏺 www.atu.ie/news/forgott...
TW: stillbirth, miscarriage, child death.
Forgotten children of Ireland: Lost burial grounds rediscovered through folklore - Atlantic Technological University
A new study by Dr Marion Dowd, lecturer in archaeology at ATU, sheds light on Ireland’s cillíní - unconsecrated burial grounds used for babies that were stillborn, miscarried or who died at birth with...
www.atu.ie
February 9, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Archaeological survey through ... #folklore:
New study sheds light on #Ireland's #cillíní - unconsecrated burial grounds used for babies that were stillborn, miscarried or who died at birth without been baptised.
🏺 www.atu.ie/news/forgott...
TW: stillbirth, miscarriage, child death.
New study sheds light on #Ireland's #cillíní - unconsecrated burial grounds used for babies that were stillborn, miscarried or who died at birth without been baptised.
🏺 www.atu.ie/news/forgott...
TW: stillbirth, miscarriage, child death.
Original study:
M. Dowd, 'Every night, the crying of babies': the folklore associated with cillíní (children's burial grounds), Journal of Irish Archaeology 34, 2025).
www.jstor.org/stable/27426...
M. Dowd, 'Every night, the crying of babies': the folklore associated with cillíní (children's burial grounds), Journal of Irish Archaeology 34, 2025).
www.jstor.org/stable/27426...
‘Every night, the crying of babies’ on JSTOR
Marion Dowd, ‘Every night, the crying of babies’, The Journal of Irish Archaeology, Vol. 34 (2025), pp. 163-178
www.jstor.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Original study:
M. Dowd, 'Every night, the crying of babies': the folklore associated with cillíní (children's burial grounds), Journal of Irish Archaeology 34, 2025).
www.jstor.org/stable/27426...
M. Dowd, 'Every night, the crying of babies': the folklore associated with cillíní (children's burial grounds), Journal of Irish Archaeology 34, 2025).
www.jstor.org/stable/27426...
New video out this evening: Subverting Social Spaces: The Cillíní of Kerry . Enjoy and thanks for watching!
youtu.be/FlAmzuQYiFs
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Subverting Social Spaces: The Cillíní of Kerry
Cillíní are very common in Ireland. Yet most people know little about them. Normally poignant and moving, they are usually beautiful places. Yet they are als...
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April 25, 2024 at 5:41 PM
New video out this evening: Subverting Social Spaces: The Cillíní of Kerry . Enjoy and thanks for watching!
youtu.be/FlAmzuQYiFs
youtu.be/FlAmzuQYiFs
#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 Inside
Upto not long a go some were not permitted to be buried INSIDE the parish cemetery, inside consecrated ground.
Unbaptised babies, non-Catholics, suicides were not allowed inside. Many were buried in Cillíní - small liminal spaces, bits of fields
#Derrymore #Kerry
Upto not long a go some were not permitted to be buried INSIDE the parish cemetery, inside consecrated ground.
Unbaptised babies, non-Catholics, suicides were not allowed inside. Many were buried in Cillíní - small liminal spaces, bits of fields
#Derrymore #Kerry
October 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 Inside
Upto not long a go some were not permitted to be buried INSIDE the parish cemetery, inside consecrated ground.
Unbaptised babies, non-Catholics, suicides were not allowed inside. Many were buried in Cillíní - small liminal spaces, bits of fields
#Derrymore #Kerry
Upto not long a go some were not permitted to be buried INSIDE the parish cemetery, inside consecrated ground.
Unbaptised babies, non-Catholics, suicides were not allowed inside. Many were buried in Cillíní - small liminal spaces, bits of fields
#Derrymore #Kerry
Cillíni can also be seen as a way of collectively creating a place of remembrance for people who weren’t allowed to be memorialized formally. There were burial rituals around them, they often reused old pilgrimage churches or sacred places that hadn’t become parish churches.
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Cillíni can also be seen as a way of collectively creating a place of remembrance for people who weren’t allowed to be memorialized formally. There were burial rituals around them, they often reused old pilgrimage churches or sacred places that hadn’t become parish churches.
Trump
Wanted nato countries to spend more on defense. Well, you got what you wanted shamoo-cillini.
Wanted nato countries to spend more on defense. Well, you got what you wanted shamoo-cillini.
September 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Trump
Wanted nato countries to spend more on defense. Well, you got what you wanted shamoo-cillini.
Wanted nato countries to spend more on defense. Well, you got what you wanted shamoo-cillini.
The section in "Listen to the land speak" on Cillíní is almost too much to hold in your heart.
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The section in "Listen to the land speak" on Cillíní is almost too much to hold in your heart.
Dr. Marion Dowd is coming to Sligo Central Library for a lunchtime talk on Children's burial grounds - cillíní throughout County Sligo.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Dr. Marion Dowd is coming to Sligo Central Library for a lunchtime talk on Children's burial grounds - cillíní throughout County Sligo.
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟭 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆
𝟭.𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝟮.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺
𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗼 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆
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𝟭.𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝟮.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺
𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗼 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆
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Cillín, Ardnaglass, Sligo, 2021
Cillíní are the burial sites in Ireland where unbaptised babies were buried, being denied access to official graveyards. They are a feature of the Irish countryside, from the 7th century up to the 1970s. More info at my site. - www.tommyweir.net/Cillin/
Cillíní are the burial sites in Ireland where unbaptised babies were buried, being denied access to official graveyards. They are a feature of the Irish countryside, from the 7th century up to the 1970s. More info at my site. - www.tommyweir.net/Cillin/
December 9, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Cillín, Ardnaglass, Sligo, 2021
Cillíní are the burial sites in Ireland where unbaptised babies were buried, being denied access to official graveyards. They are a feature of the Irish countryside, from the 7th century up to the 1970s. More info at my site. - www.tommyweir.net/Cillin/
Cillíní are the burial sites in Ireland where unbaptised babies were buried, being denied access to official graveyards. They are a feature of the Irish countryside, from the 7th century up to the 1970s. More info at my site. - www.tommyweir.net/Cillin/
You first, shampoo- cillini.
September 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
You first, shampoo- cillini.
Listed Cillini twice and acting smart 😂
August 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Listed Cillini twice and acting smart 😂
Buried in the Shadows, Ireland’s Unconsecrated Dead
A visual anthropologist reflects on the history of cillíní, unmarked and mostly hidden burial sites in Ireland where loved ones continue to care for the dead.
www.sapiens.org/culture/irel...
#ireland #death #antropology
A visual anthropologist reflects on the history of cillíní, unmarked and mostly hidden burial sites in Ireland where loved ones continue to care for the dead.
www.sapiens.org/culture/irel...
#ireland #death #antropology
Buried in the Shadows, Ireland’s Unconsecrated Dead
A visual anthropologist reflects on the history of cillíní, unmarked burial sites in Ireland where loved ones continue to care for the dead.
www.sapiens.org
June 21, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Buried in the Shadows, Ireland’s Unconsecrated Dead
A visual anthropologist reflects on the history of cillíní, unmarked and mostly hidden burial sites in Ireland where loved ones continue to care for the dead.
www.sapiens.org/culture/irel...
#ireland #death #antropology
A visual anthropologist reflects on the history of cillíní, unmarked and mostly hidden burial sites in Ireland where loved ones continue to care for the dead.
www.sapiens.org/culture/irel...
#ireland #death #antropology
And another thing! I read some article where an anthropologist compared the M&B burials to cillíni, which I think is oversimplifying. Cillíni were burial grounds for people who couldn’t be buried in a consecrated place. The rule about who could be buried with a marker is cruel as hell! But
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
And another thing! I read some article where an anthropologist compared the M&B burials to cillíni, which I think is oversimplifying. Cillíni were burial grounds for people who couldn’t be buried in a consecrated place. The rule about who could be buried with a marker is cruel as hell! But
I knew nothing about cillíní until I saw an episode of Ear to the Ground (a farming program) tonight on RTE.
October 31, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I knew nothing about cillíní until I saw an episode of Ear to the Ground (a farming program) tonight on RTE.