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Children's burial ground

Cappafeean, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Cappafeean, 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
Cappafeean
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Ground for Children
Latest-edition OS map
Kilvilly Childrens Burial Ground (1920)
Coordinates
52.91640, -8.89208
SMR number
CL026-020001-

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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

Towards the N end of a N-S ridge. Listed as 'Burial Ground' in the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. dim. 20m NE-SW) defined by a kerb of 23 stones (0.55m x 0.3m; H 0.2m to 1.6m x 1m; H 0.8m) SW-NE and slight traces of a perimeter elsewhere (diam. 11m NW-SE). It has been damaged and no grave-markers are now evident. (Lenihan 1992, 28; Coffey 1993, 67)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 2 May 2017

References

Coffey, T. 1993 Field notes. The Other Clare 17, 67-8.

Lenihan, E. 1992 The holy wells of Inchicronan parish. The Other Clare 16, 27-30.

Nearby in the register

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

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