Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Creggaun (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggaun (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 54.09636, -9.17820
- SMR number
- MA039-020002-
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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 a court tomb (MA039-020001-). Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as ‘Burying ground’ and on the 1930 edition as ‘children’s burial ground’. The court tomb, was used as a burial ground for unbaptised babies. There are no obvious traces of graves. The court tomb is largely obscured by gorse, brambles and hawthorn bushes.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.