Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Altar
Largan Beg, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Largan Beg
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13840, -9.65873
- SMR number
- MA027-001002-
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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
In a children’s burial ground (MA027-001001-). There is a altar (1.75m E-W; 1.65m N-S; max H 1.2m), crudely constructed of stones, at the NNW end of the burial ground. Aldridge (1969, 86) recorded it as ‘an altar of rough stones, with a curiously shaped water worn stone standing at each corner’. 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
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 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.