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Children's burial ground

Gortlecka, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Gortlecka, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gortlecka
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisheenaloughil Childrens Burial Gd.
Latest-edition OS map
Lisheenaloughil Childrens B.Gd.(Disused)
Coordinates
52.99183, -9.00277
SMR number
CL017-049----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a low rise in hazel and ash woodland at the SW end of a turlough, with land rising to the NW and SE. Indicated as a small rectangular enclosure and named ‘Lisheenalaughil Childrens Burial Ground’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map. Shown as a partly raised oval shaped area on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and named ‘Lisheenalaughil Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)’ and similarly depicted and named on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP (1996). This children’s burial ground comprises a tree-covered, oval-shaped cairn (10.7m NE-SW; 5.2m NW-SE; min. H 0.2m at SW, rising to 1.5m at NE). Some eight probable grave-marker stones are visible and appear to be lying on, rather than bring set into, the cairn.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 20 July 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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