Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Mountallon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountallon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Parknakilla Grave Yard for Children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.82071, -8.69165
- SMR number
- CL035-130----
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 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
On an elevated area of a low knoll, in dense impenetrable vegetation, surrounded by low lying and gently undulating pasture and woodland. Depicted on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular area and named ‘Parknakilla Grave Yard for Children’. It retains a similar outline and is named ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ on the OS 25-inch map and 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This was not accessible due to dense, impenetrable overgrowth on and around the monument. There is a natural plateau in the pasture field to the immediate NE. A field boundary (long axis NW-SE) respects the children’s burial ground NNW-NE, where it projects outwards, as depicted on OS historic mapping. According to Curry in 1839 (OSL, vol. 2, 305), Park-na-kille was the name of this field and in Irish, the townland name is Maidhm-Talmhan. This placename refers to a massacre or in this case, perhaps a mass burial associated with a famine.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL035-130----_01.jpg From E. General view of area of monument taken from pasture field at N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.