Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloghnadromin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghnadromin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1840)
- Coordinates
- 52.62757, -8.50032
- SMR number
- LI014-026----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in undulating pasture, on a gentle NW-SE ridge. Indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as an oval feature named 'Claghduff'. According to the Ordnance Survey Name Book it was 'said that children were buried there'. No trace of the feature was evident when the site was inspected.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.