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Children's burial ground

Dubhoileán Mór, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Dubhoileán Mór, 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
Dubhoileán Mór
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Killeen
Latest-edition OS map
Killeen
Coordinates
54.07447, -10.16949
SMR number
MA033A003008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

On Duvillaun More Island, located within a cashel (MA033A003001-). There is a cluster of ruined 19th century vernacular stone houses, with associated field plots and cultivation ridges, 30m to N.
According to the OS Letters (1838), the cashel was used as a children's burial ground. Use of the cashel for this purpose is most likely to have been contemporary with the 19th settlement on the island. There are the remains of a church (MA033A003004-), a cross slab (MA033A003002-) and a possible slab-lined burial (MA033A003003-) in the E half of the cashel interior, but no visible trace of graves associated with the children’s burial ground.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 27 February 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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