New Short Film Documenting the Cillliní of West Cork
Many are aware of the great work of Teri Kearney and the Skibbereen Heritage Centre on a range of different heritage projects, including a number of videos that have been undertaken documenting many important and historic graveyards in West Cork. A new video has now just been published:
‘Cillíní, also known as 'children's burial grounds', are unofficial burial grounds that are found all over Ireland. Unbaptised babies and young children were buried in them, as were some suicides, strangers whose religion was unknown, convicts, and they were also used by the general population during times of distress, for example the Great Famine of the 1840s. In this short film, Terri Kearney of Skibbereen Heritage Centre visits several cillíní around West Cork and reveals the tragic stories associated with some of them’. The video can be viewed on YouTube by clicking the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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