Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Aughinish (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughinish (Burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (disused) (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.15935, -9.07653
- SMR number
- CL003-012----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as ‘Graveyard’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Situated near the W end of a very low E-W ridge in pasture, c. 230m ESE of Aughinish church (CL003-010001-). A boat-shaped area (int. dims. 29m E-W; max. 17.8m N-S) defined by single and sometimes double drystone walling. The visible graves are concentrated to W of centre and are marked by plain flat flags that probably commemorate children. One adult concrete headstone is undated.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 28 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.