Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballyline (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyline (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00967, -9.10367
- SMR number
- CL010-087003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated immediately to the S of a medieval church (CL010-087002-), in the S centre of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL010-087001-). Indicated by a broken line and named ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This graveyard is hardly traceable, comprising a roughly semicircular area (c. 13m ENE-WSW; c. 6.5m NNW-SSE) of grass-covered stones and uninscribed headstones. Swinfen (1992, 134) recounted a local tradition that children were buried here up to 40-50 years before her time of writing.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 13 June 2023
References
Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.