Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gleann Chalraí Íochtarach, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleann Chalraí Íochtarach
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 54.25159, -9.58213
- SMR number
- MA012-004002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated close to the base of a steep WNW mountain hillside. To the E is the imposing sight of Benmore Mountain. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as ‘Grave Yard’ and on the 1921 edition as ‘Children’s Burial Ground’, it consists of a raised subcircular area (12.2m NNE-SSW; 10.9m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a low, grass-covered bank of earth and stone. A stream skirts the N half. Within the interior are several small, low cairns of small to medium-sized stones, probably marking graves. There are also a number of low, uninscribed upright stone grave-markers. The largest (H 0.8m; Wth 0.2m; T 0.12m) of these is immediately inside the bank at ESE. Neary (1913-4, 24) suggested there may have been a church here, but there is no evidence to confirm this.
Compiled by: Paddy O'Donovan and Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 November 2017
References
Neary, Rev. J. 1913-14 Some notes on Killala Diocese. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 8, 12-38
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.