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Children's burial ground

Cushacorra, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Cushacorra, 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
Cushacorra
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cushacorra Graveyard
Latest-edition OS map
Cushacorra Graveyard (Ch.B.Gr.) (1916)
Coordinates
53.06836, -8.95399
SMR number
CL007-003003-

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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

Along the heavily overgrown S edge of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL007-003001-), on the S crest of a low E–W ridge in improved pasture. Indicated and named ‘Cushacorra Grave Yd.’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps and ‘Cushacorra Grave Yd (Children’s Burial Gd.)’ on the 1915 ed.

The burial ground (11.5m N–S; 6.3m E–W) is defined at E by a church (CL007-003004-) and along the S by a low drystone wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m), but it has no obvious enclosing element to W or N. Burials are mostly marked by small plain stones (H 0.2m; L 0.3m; Wth 0.15m) with a few taller and longer markers (H 0.4–0.6m; L 0.4–0.5m; Wth 0.08–0.12m). The markers run in N–S rows and average 0.8m apart. The collapsed remains of another building (CL007-003002-) lie just to the NW and a holy well (CL007-002----) lies c. 60m to the WNW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 30 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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