Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kiltanon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltanon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Gd for Children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.88013, -8.79679
- SMR number
- CL027-024001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a low rise of a gentle S-facing slope in pasture with reasonable views across a low-lying landscape NE-NW and overlooked by higher ground NW-NE. Depicted and named on OS historic mapping as ‘Burial Ground for Children’ (1842 and 1899) and ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ (1920). The monument consists of an oval mound (12m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a low irregular scarp (Wth 2.8m; H 0.5m). The scarp is truncated by a later field boundary (long-axis E-W) across the N sector. The top of the mound is generally level. There are some flat stones and boulders protruding above ground level across the eastern side and occasionally in other places. These may represent low, uninscribed burial markers that were laid flat in more recent times. Other small angular and rounded boulders protrude from surface of the children’s burial ground and may be associated with it. The potential remains of a megalithic structure (CL027-024002-) and a bullaun stone (CL027-024003-) are located on top of the mound, off-centre to SE. A small depression is noted in the scarp at SW.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL027-024001-_01.jpg From S. Children’s burial ground.
CL027-024001-_02.jpg From E. Children’s burial ground.
CL027-024001-_03.jpg From SW. View across top of mound showing megalithic structure (CL027-024002-) and bullaun stone (CL027-024003-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 5 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.