Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carn (tirawley By., Lackan Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn (tirawley By., Lackan Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 54.23447, -9.29475
- SMR number
- MA014-062001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located close to the summit of a prominent hill. Poorly-defined, largely grass-covered wedge-shaped cairn (28.3m NNW-SSE; 11m ENE-WSW; max H 1.2m) of small and medium sized stones. A considerable portion of the broad N end of the cairn has been quarried away. There is an enclosure (MA014-062002-) 10m to N.
Compiled by: Paddy O'Donovan and Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.