Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Derrycalliff, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycalliff
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground for Children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.93271, -8.85449
- SMR number
- CL026-022----
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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
Just off the S tip of a NNE-SSW ridge. Listed as 'Burial ground' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular overgrown area (ext. diam. 30m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE) defined by an earth and stone bank at N (Wth 3.5m; H 0.6m). There are a few grave-markers (H c. 0.2m) in the interior.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Fulacht fia1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.