Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballinloughaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinloughaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05711, -9.37949
- SMR number
- MA038-168----
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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 pasture, on a slight E-facing slope, close to the E boundary of a rectangular field.
This children’s burial ground is not shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a roughly square enclosure (13m E-W; 11.50 N-S) defined by tumbled remnants of a drystone stone wall (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.3m). The enclosing wall is slumped to a low, moss-covered jumble of stones, with heaps of loose field clearance stones overlying it at W and SW. The interior, which slopes slightly to E reflecting the natural slope, is not raised relative to exterior ground level; it is strewn with loose stones. Ash trees grow on the enclosing wall and in the interior. According to local information, this enclosure was used as a burial ground for unbaptised babies.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 16 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.