Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Leamaneh North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leamaneh North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial ground for children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground-Indicated(1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.99008, -9.12561
- SMR number
- CL016-038----
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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
At the E edge of a col in the Leamaneh valley with higher ground to the N and W and sloping ground to the E with extensive views over a basin from E to S. Named ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP (1996).
A D-shaped mound (16.8m E-W; 13m N-S; H 0.3-0.5m) with a straight edge at the W, covered in small stones aligned in E-W rows. The stones are best preserved at the W where the rows are c. 1m apart. The largest stones (H 0.5m, 0.15m x 0.3m; H 0.45m, 0.15m x 0.35m) are place c. 0.85m apart.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 4 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.