Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilcasheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcasheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64476, -9.68348
- SMR number
- CL065-026003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is a local tradition that Kilcasheen graveyard (CL065-026----) was used as a children’s burial ground. P. Waldron (http://pwaldron.info/Kilcasheen) lists several family names of mostly unbaptised children that were buried there. A cluster of uninscribed simple gravemarkers cover an area c. 12m NE-SW by c. 7m NW-SE just to the N of the possible church (CL065-026002-) that lies within the graveyard and some simple gravemarkers lie within the possible church itself. The graveyard was in disuse by 1739 but was used for burial during the famine of 1740-41 and some burial continued into the 20th century (ibid.).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.