Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cushacorra, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.