Clare County Council Heritage Services have been doing some work on the burial sites of unbaptised children within the county. These sites, of which 144 have been identified to date, are more commonly known as Kyles or cillíns, They were utilised between the 17th and early 20th centuries,until a change in Canon Law in the 1960’s.
Michael Houlihan has visited all 144 cillíns and recorded some history and images of them, The database is currently being completed by the Clare Heritage Group with a view to placing it online. To complement these, Michael has created a short booklet giving some of the background to the burial grounds, Entitled ‘Kyles – The story of Clare’s Unbaptised Children’, it offers a synopsis of the children’s burial grounds in the county. These childrens grounds are a forgotten facet of Clare history and deserve our attention.
Please expand or download the pdf file below to view the booklet and enjoy.
