Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gortnahurra Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnahurra Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.14354, -9.38116
- SMR number
- MA029-059----
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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
In pasture, located on a slight rise in undulating terrain, and overlooked at SW-W by higher ground. Nephin Mountain is visible in the distance to S. Roughly trapezoidal, flat-topped mound (7m NNW–SSE; 4m ENE–WSW at NNW end, 5.5m at SSE end) defined around the perimeter by low, sloping sides (H 0.5-0.6m). The mound has an uneven, moss- and sod-covered surface, from which low stones protrude randomly. According to local information, the mound was used as a burial ground for unbaptized babies (pers. comm. Liam Heffron 2014)
Attached image: MA029-059----_01 is viewed from E
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Dat of upload: 6 November 2014
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.