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Children's burial ground

Carrowkilleen (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Carrowkilleen, 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
Carrowkilleen (Tirawley By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisheenarnagh
Latest-edition OS map
Lisheenarnagh
Coordinates
54.08471, -9.38754
SMR number
MA038-019002-

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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

Within a possible rath (MA038-019001-). According to local tradition, the interior of the possible rath was used as a children’s burial ground, named ‘Lisheenarnagh’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It was destroyed during land reclamation; there are no visible remains at ground level.
There is a possible rath (MA038-020----) 40m to NE, and another children’s burial ground (MA018-018002-) within a possible rath (MA038-018001-) 180m to NNW.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 24 July 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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