Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Murrooghkilly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murrooghkilly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killamurroogh Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killamurroogh Grave Yard (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.12613, -9.27902
- SMR number
- CL001-004----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On low lying improved pasture c. 150m E of sand-dunes and 0.8km E of the sea. Indicated and named ‘Killamurroogh Graveyard’ on the 1840 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A roughly rectangular area (c. 40m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) defined along its SE side by a modern field wall, along its NE and NW sides by field clearance material and by a low scarp along its SW side. The interior is overgrown and uneven underfoot. There are no obvious grave markers and no church is visible. The site is known locally as a children’s burial ground, marked as such on Robinson’s map (1977) and is listed as a ‘church site and burial ground’ by Swan (1991, 114-15).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Swan, D.L. 1991 The churches, monasteries and burial grounds of the Burren. In J. W. O'Connell and A. Korff (eds.), The book of the Burren, 95-118. Tír Eolas, Newtownlynch, Kinvara, Co. Galway.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.