Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Killian, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killian
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91861, -8.94625
- SMR number
- CL026-003001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on an undulating landscape. A subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (int. diam. 83m N-S; 74m E-W) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 5m; H 0.6m), best preserved at N (Wth 8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.3m). A children's burial ground (CL026-003002-) is in the interior and a bullaun stone (CL026-003003-) is inside the perimeter at SW. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 3m) at SW. (Swan 1991)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 November 2016
References
Swan, D.L. 1991 Some ecclesiastical sites in Co. Clare. The Other Clare 15, 61-3.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.