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Children's burial ground

Castletown (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Castletown, 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
Castletown (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Ground for Children
Latest-edition OS map
Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)(1916)
Coordinates
53.02811, -9.07177
SMR number
CL010-065----

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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

In undulating pastureland c. 50m to the W of Carran Turlough. Indicated and labelled ‘Burial Ground for Children’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and labelled ‘Children’s Burial Ground (Disused)’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP (1996). This roughly square-shaped children’s burial ground (c. 12m N-S; c. 12m E-W) comprises a cluster of rough irregular graves with small uninscribed grave-marker stones (max. H 0.15m). There are also some loose field-clearance stones in places, especially at the S. There is a natural subcircular hollow at the N. Castletown tower house (CL010-066002-) lies c. 110m to the SE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 23 May 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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