Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Foghill, County Mayo, Ireland
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-
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 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.