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Children's burial ground

Attyslany North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Attyslany North, 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
Attyslany North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard for Children
Latest-edition OS map
Childrens Burial Ground (1916)
Coordinates
53.02096, -8.89078
SMR number
CL011-016----

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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

On a gentle SW-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Indicated as a suboval/circular tree-lined area and named ‘Grave Yard for Children’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP. This slightly damaged children’s burial ground survives as a slight oval-shaped overgrown mound (max. H 1m; dims. of base 18.5m WNW-ESE; 14m NNE-SSW). Several stones on the surface of the mound could be gravestones or simply fieldstones; none appear to be set in the ground but overgrowth inhibits visibility. There is a subcircular hollow (diam. c. 4m; D c. 0.5m) at the W end resulting from digging activity.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 23 January 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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