Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelhilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08181, -8.99034
- SMR number
- CL006-027----
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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
On mixed open karst and rough, overgrown pastureland. A possible burial ground was noted on a Geological Survey of Ireland field map. The 1916 OS 6-inch map indicates a small rectangular enclosure (c. 12m N-S; c. 10m E-W) in the area which may have contained the burial ground. On inspection in 1997 this was found to have been levelled, as were several field walls to E and S. A number of slab walls form a field system (CL006-168----) to the N. A ringfort (CL006-167----) is c. 120m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.