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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Killian, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Killian, 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
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-

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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

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

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

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