What is recorded here

Calluragh is a children's burial ground in County Clare, Ireland, with a low stone rim and a flat grassy centre. It stands on a gentle rise beside the Ballymacraven River, where young lives may have been laid to rest before the area became ordinary pasture. The place is small enough to walk around in minutes, yet heavy enough to slow a person down.

In pasture on a low rise c. 105m W of the S-flowing Ballymacraven River. Depicted on the first edition (1840) of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure named ‘Calluragh Burial Gd’. Indicated on the Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map as a dashed oval-shaped area named ‘Calluragh Children’s Burial Ground’. O’Donovan listed ‘Lis-Callooragh in the Townland of Callooragh’ among ‘some small burial places for children’ in the parish of Kilmanaheen (Comber 1997, 105). Classified as a burial ground in the RMP (1996). A sub-rectangular shaped enclosure (22m N-S) is defined by a gentle scarp (H 0.25-1.15m) enclosing an irregularly shaped raised area (13m N-S; 12m E-W). The scarp is lowest to the W and highest at the E with indistinct edges. The raised interior slopes gently down to SE and has c. 150 undressed stone grave-markers (av. dims. L 0.4m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.15m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 8-10-2025

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE. Its depiction on early 19th-century maps highlights its long-standing recognition as a prehistoric site of funerary significance.

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