Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Breaghwy (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breaghwy (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.09064, -9.11164
- SMR number
- MA039-030002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a rath (MA039-030001). In the SMR (1991) and the RMP (1997) a children’s burial ground is listed at his location, the source of information being a reference in Aldridge (1969, 85): ‘In Breaghwy (Mayo 39) the rath marked has been levelled except for the northern portion cut off by a fence; this remains as a CBG.’
This rath (MA039-030001-), which is fully intact, does not match Aldridge’s description. This would suggest that an error was made by the SMR, and that this rath is not the location of the children’s burial ground recorded by Aldridge.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
References
Aldridge, R.B. 1969 Notes on children's burial grounds in Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 99, 83-87.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.