What is recorded here

Kilnaloone Grave Yard in County Clare is a children's burial ground where small moss-covered stones still mark the dead. The site sits inside a D-shaped boundary formed by a steep eastern drop and low earthen banks, shaping a quiet chamber rather than an ordinary field. Children may have been laid to rest beneath that gentle slope, while the sharp fall kept the place separate from the living world.

On a gentle E-facing slope with a sharp fall immediately to E. Listed as ‘Burial Ground’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Indicated and named ‘Kilnaloone Grave Yard (for Children)’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A very poorly preserved and badly overgrown children’s burial ground in a D-shaped enclosure defined along its straight E side by a very steep natural drop (H 4m), by a low earthen bank (H 0.1–0.4m; Wth 2.1–2.9m) from SW–NE and a low scarp (L 1.4m; H 0.8m) from SE–SW. Near the centre a few small, unworked and moss-covered field stones mark the burials. A cashel (CL006-065----) lies c. 250m to the WSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 29 September 2021

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