Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Largan Beg, County Mayo, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.