Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyline (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyline (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00971, -9.10364
- SMR number
- CL010-087005-
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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
According to Swinfen (1992, 134) there is a tradition that children were buried at Templeline graveyard (CL010-087003-) up to 40-50 years before her time of writing. The graveyard comprises a roughly semicircular area and has a number of uninscribed gravestones.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 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.