Cillíní are children’s burial grounds found throughout the west of Ireland, quiet places that speak to loss, belief, and the deep emotional history of the landscape.
In Connemara, these sites are often found in remote places, on hillsides and near the coast. Their simple stone markers identify the graves of infants who were not buried in consecrated Catholic ground and who, until the 1950s, were commonly believed to remain in Limbo. For families and communities, these places held the weight of private grief and public exclusion. Today, cillíní invite visitors to consider how love, loss, faith, and silence shaped the ways children were remembered at the margins of official religious life.
Mullaghgloss Cillín
The Cillín is on Mullaghgloss, Tullycross Connemara. On a the edge of a small cliff near overlooking the beach.
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