Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilcornan (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcornan (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilcornan Burial Gd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcornan Burial Ground (Disused)(1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.94454, -9.28233
- SMR number
- CL015-105----
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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 the edge of a low natural scarp in undulating pasture. Depicted on the first edition (1840) of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular area (est. diam. c. 13m) named ‘Kilcornan Burial Gd’. Hachured on the Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map and named ‘Kilcornan Burial Ground (Disused)’. O’Donovan listed Kilcornan among ‘some small burial places for children’ in the parish of Kilmanaheen, commenting that ‘it would appear from the name of this burial place, Cill-Chornain, the Church of St. Cornan, that there was a primitive Irish Church at it, but nothing remains on the ground to throw any light on this supposition’ (Comber 1997, 105). Classified as a burial ground in the RMP (1996). A subrectangular platform (10.5m N-S; 8.5m E-W) is defined by a gentle scarp (H 0.5-9m), highest along the N and S, and sloping down to the E. A single upright stone grave-marker stands at the W end of the enclosure, while at least six collapsed and grassed-over stone grave-markers (av. dims. L 0.9m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.15m) lie in the centre. No markings are visible on any of the stones.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 8-10-2025
References
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.