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Children's burial ground

Kilquane (Islands By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Kilquane, 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
Kilquane (Islands By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Burial Ground (Disused) (1921)
Coordinates
52.84087, -9.04278
SMR number
CL033-062001-

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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

Listed as 'Burial ground' in the RMP (1996). Situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. A subrectangular grass-covered mound (dims. of base 13.8m E-W; 11.2m N-S; dims. of top 11.5m E-W; 10m E-W; H 0.2-0.6m) with another slight mound (diam. 2.5m; H 0.1m) on top towards the edge at SW. There is one stone visible on the mound and another outside the perimeter at NE but other stones can be felt underfoot. There is a bullaun stone (CL033-062002-) at the site. (Westropp 1917, 4)

Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 19 May 2015

References

Westropp, T. J. 1917 Notes on the primitive remains (forts and dolmens) in central County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 47, 1-20.

Nearby in the register

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

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