Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Formoyle East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formoyle East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Formoyle Chilrens Burial Gd
- Latest-edition OS map
- Formoyle Childrens Burial Gd (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.11587, -9.24138
- SMR number
- CL002-025----
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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 a level terrace of rough grazing (500’ OD), in an earlier enclosure (CL002-025002-) near the foot of Gleninagh Mountain with panoramic views over the Caher valley to E and through the Khyber Pass to Galway Bay at NW. Indicated and named ‘Formoyle Children’s Burial Ground’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the 6-inch OS maps and as ‘Cillín Formaoil’ on Robinson’s map (1977). An irregularly shaped burial ground (17.5m N–S x 14.7m E-W) defined by the earlier enclosure along its E side and by a low scarp elsewhere. Small plain unworked burial markers occur mainly in the N half, occasionally in E–W rows with small flat slabs to the S. Swan (1991, 108) recorded a bullaun and destroyed structure at this location, and suggested it was an early ecclesiastical site ‘degenerated… to the status of a killeen’. It is possible he confused this site with the bullaun (CL002-063001-) and church site (CL002-063002-) c.300m to the S. A deserted village ‘Cathair Bheannach’ that was still inhabited until at least the end of the 19th century (Gilmore 1995) lies c. 600m ESE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
References
Gilmore, H. 1995 Portrait of the deserted village of Caher Bheannach. The Other Clare 19, 44–5.
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.