Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Milltown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86971, -8.79005
- SMR number
- CL035-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In a gently undulating field of improved pasture with rock outcrop close to the surface. Depicted as an oval area (c. 17m NW-SE; c. 12 NE-SW) and named ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1840 edition OS 6-inch map. Named ‘Graveyard (site of)’ on the OS 25-inch map, suggesting that it had been levelled by the late 19th century. There are no visible remains at ground level at this location.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Alison McQueen
Date of upload: 8 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.