Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Glencolumbkille North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencolumbkille North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilnaloone Grave Yard (for children)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilnaloone Grave Yard. (Ch. B.Gd) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05292, -9.01160
- SMR number
- CL006-066----
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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 gentle E-facing slope with a sharp fall immediately to E. Listed as ‘Burial Ground’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Indicated and named ‘Kilnaloone Grave Yard (for Children)’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps.
A very poorly preserved and badly overgrown children’s burial ground in a D-shaped enclosure defined along its straight E side by a very steep natural drop (H 4m), by a low earthen bank (H 0.1–0.4m; Wth 2.1–2.9m) from SW–NE and a low scarp (L 1.4m; H 0.8m) from SE–SW. Near the centre a few small, unworked and moss-covered field stones mark the burials. A cashel (CL006-065----) lies c. 250m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.