Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilweelran, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilweelran
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killeen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Childrens Burial Ground (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.10521, -9.09906
- SMR number
- CL006-003001-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On level and improved pastureland. Indicated and named ‘Killeen’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A poorly preserved rectangular enclosure (L 15.5m N–S; Wth 11.7m ext.) defined only along its E side and at the E end of its S side by a low overgrown scarp (H 0.6–0.9m). Burials are concentrated along the W side, marked by small unworked flat flags and a few small erect marker stones.
The remains of an enclosure (CL006-003002-) are located c. 30m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.