Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Caherblonick North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherblonick North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Parknahilly Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Parknahilly Childrens Burial Ground (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97155, -9.13165
- SMR number
- CL016-090----
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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 slight E-facing slope, on the floor of an E-W valley, in pasture. Named ‘Parknahilly Grave Yd.’ on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and ‘Parknahilly Children’s Burial Ground’ on the 1916 ed., where it is depicted as an unenclosed roughly rectangular area extending to the S of a field boundary. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP (1996).
This trapezoidal-shaped children's burial ground (max. L 14.5m; Wth of N side 14.5m; Wth of S side 20.8m) is defined by a drystone field boundary along the N side. The foundations of a later field wall cross its S extent. The E and W sides are unenclosed but another more recent N-S running field boundary is visible beyond the W limits. Burials are marked by uninscribed stones, a number of which are not set into the ground.
The following image has been uploaded: CL016-090----_01.jpg View from E
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload 22 June 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.