Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cappafeean, County Clare, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.