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Children's burial ground

Glencolumbkille North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Glencolumbkille North, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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