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Children's burial ground

Kilcasheen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Kilcasheen, 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
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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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

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

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

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