page_title: Cillín
section_title: Definition and alternative names
hierarchical_section_title: Cillín / Definition and alternative names
caption_attribution_description: Inishmicatreer, Lough Corrib, County Galway, Ireland This object is indexed in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland under SMR No. GA041-037002-Geographic information system of the National Monuments Service: Historic Environment Viewer – Database record. Deutsch&#160;| English&#160;| français&#160;| italiano&#160;| македонски&#160;| +/− This object is indexed in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland under SMR No. GA041-037004-Geographic information system of the National Monuments Service: Historic Environment Viewer – Database record. Deutsch&#160;| English&#160;| français&#160;| italiano&#160;| македонски&#160;| +/− English: Children's burial ground in front of the monastic site on the island of Inishmicatreer at Lough Corrib.
context_page_description: A cillín is a historic burial site in Ireland, primarily used for stillborn and unbaptized infants. These burial areas were also used for the recently deceased who were not allowed in consecrated churchyards, including the mentally disabled, suicides, beggars, executed criminals, and shipwreck victims.
context_section_description: The Irish word cillín is defined as  a small church or "cell" as in prison cell or monastic cell. In Ireland, a cillín can also be called a caldragh, calluragh, cealltrach, ceallúrach and lisín, depending upon the location of the site within Ireland.  English versions  of cillíns  include: cill burial grounds, kyle burial grounds, killeens and children's burial grounds.
  The types of locations used for these unconsecrated grounds include: abandoned graveyards and churches, castle ruins, ancient earthenworks and megalithic cairns. The name cillín is used primarily in Ulster. As of 2013, there were approximately 1440 known children's burial grounds in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, including 500 sites listed in County Galway and 250 sites in County Kerry.
caption: Cillín on Inishmicatreer, Lough Corrib
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