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Children's burial ground

Largan Beg, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Largan Beg, 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
Largan Beg
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard (Disused)
Coordinates
54.13834, -9.65869
SMR number
MA027-001001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 on a steep SW facing hillside, in rough mountainous terrain.
This children’s burial ground is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as ‘Grave Yard’ and on the 1921 edition as ‘Grave Yd. (Disused)’. It consists of roughly triangular-shaped area (14.3m NE-SW; 12.3m NW-SE) bordered by field boundaries from WSW−ESE and by a stream from ESE−S. In the interior there is a crude altar (027-001002-) at the NNW, and numerous graves marked by slabs, boulders and roughly square stone settings. Aldridge (1969, 86) noted a cross-inscribed stone (MA027-001003-) on the altar.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy and Paddy O’Donovan

Date of upload: 12 December 2017

References

Aldridge, R.B. 1969 Notes on children's burial grounds in Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 99, 83-87.

Nearby in the register

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

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