Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Turlough, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turlough
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killeenacurry
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeenacurry Childrens Burial Gd (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08955, -9.06204
- SMR number
- CL006-016----
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 top of a low knoll and surrounded by fields of extensively cleared and improved pastureland. Indicated and named ‘Killeenacurry’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A subrectangular burial ground (27m E–W; 18.5m N–S) defined by field clearance to the W, a low scarp (H 0.4m) to the S and a modern drystone wall to the N and E. The burials occur throughout the interior and are marked by unworked flat slabs (max. H 0.6m; max. Wth 0.4m; max. T 0.1m) and headstones. There is a concentration of headstones and flat slabs to the SW of centre where they are orientated N–S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.