What is recorded here

Killamurroogh Grave Yard is a children's burial ground in County Clare, Ireland. It occupies low pasture near sand dunes and the sea, marked on maps since 1840 but stripped of visible graves. The loss is not obscure; it is the shape of the place. Adults forgot the small deaths, yet the land still holds them without display.

On low lying improved pasture c. 150m E of sand-dunes and 0.8km E of the sea. Indicated and named ‘Killamurroogh Graveyard’ on the 1840 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A roughly rectangular area (c. 40m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) defined along its SE side by a modern field wall, along its NE and NW sides by field clearance material and by a low scarp along its SW side. The interior is overgrown and uneven underfoot. There are no obvious grave markers and no church is visible. The site is known locally as a children’s burial ground, marked as such on Robinson’s map (1977) and is listed as a ‘church site and burial ground’ by Swan (1991, 114-15). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 14 September 2020

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