Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Rinneen (Inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinneen (Inchiquin By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- ‘Kilmaskuit Burial Gd.’
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilmaskuit Burial Gd. (Disused) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.94495, -9.02744
- SMR number
- CL017-126----
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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
On a broad low ridge running ENE-WSW, in pasture, with wide views to E and W. Indicated as a small subrectangular area and named ‘Kilmaskuit Burial Ground’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map. Labelled ‘Kilmaskuit Burial Gd.’ (Disused)’ on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP (1996). According to local information (1999), this is a children’s burial ground and comprises an elongated mound (25m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.3-0.5m) located in the NE corner of a field where field boundary walls define its N and E limits. Some field stones lie on the ground but none are earthfast or set upright. There is a rath (CL017-213----) c. 85m to the N, and another (CL017-128----) c. 160m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 29-10-2025
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.