Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killian, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killian
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)(1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91852, -8.94625
- SMR number
- CL026-003002-
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 just SE of the centre of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL026-003001-). Named 'Children's Burial Ground (disused)' on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and listed as 'Burial ground' in the RMP (1996). A rectangular overgrown area (int. dims. 30m E-W; 27m N-S; ext. dims. 42m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3-4m; H 0.5-1m) with some facing stones at N (original Wth 1.4m). The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is towards the S end of the E side, and there is a cairn (CL026-003006-) (diam. 5m; H 0.7m) outside the perimeter at N, but there are no grave-markers. (O'Flanagan 1928, vol. 2, 48; MacMahon 1984, 17)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 November 2016
References
MacMahon, M. 1984 The Doughnambraher font. The Other Clare 8, 17-18.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Clare collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.