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Children's burial ground

Foghill, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Foghill, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Foghill
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisheen Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Lisheen (Childrens Burial Gd.)
Coordinates
54.26749, -9.23960
SMR number
MA015-003002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

In a rath (MA015-003001-). According to the OS Letters, this was ‘a burying place for unbaptised children, called Lishín –Lisheen.’ (O'Flanagan 1927, 196). It is named ‘Lisheen Grave Yard’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and ‘Lisheen (Children’s Burial Gd.) on the 1922 edition.
In the centre of the rath interior, there is a single upright, uninscribed slab (H 0.7m; W 0.6m NW-SE; T 0.06m) and to NE of this, a number of smaller stones which barely protruding above the surface. These stones may mark the locations of graves.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 November 2018

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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