Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Attyslany North, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.