What is recorded here

Kilconnell Children’s Burial Ground is a small, wet, overgrown rectangle on a Clare pasture slope, marked on maps from 1842 and still listed as a burial ground today. Its low bank, faint southern ditch, scattered boulders and two grave slabs suggest a place set apart for the youngest dead, perhaps chosen because the ground was already soft, shadowed and near a vanished stream. The name itself does the work: children, not adults; a separate threshold where love and loss were handled together.

On a wet, partly overgrown S-facing slope in pasture, with a relict stream bed running NNW-SSE immediately to the W. Hachured and named ‘Kilconnell Burial Ground’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map, but named ‘Kilconnell Children’s Burial Ground’ on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP (1996). This subrectangular children’s burial ground (27.6m E-W; 12.6m N-S) is defined by a low bank (Wth 1-2m; int. H 0-0.1m; ext. H 0.25m) outside of which along the S a faint band of rushes suggests the presence of an outer fosse. The partly overgrown interior slopes gently to the S and contains many boulders but some grave-markers are visible in the SW quadrant. The interior also contains two graveslabs (L 1.04m; 0.56m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 3-10-2025

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