Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ennistimon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ennistimon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.93968, -9.29150
- SMR number
- CL015-144----
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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
Situated at the top of a hill within Ennistymon town, c. 45m N of the wall surrounding a Church of Ireland church and graveyard (CL015-103001- and CL015-103002-). According to local information this is the location of a burial ground for unbaptized children and the area is known to have been blessed by a priest in the 1950’s on this account. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 August 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.