Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballybeg (Tirawley By., Ballynahaglish Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (Tirawley By., Ballynahaglish Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 54.07296, -9.17142
- SMR number
- MA039-050002-
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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 a pasture field, located at a court tomb (MA039-050001-). Indicated on the 1930 OS 6-inch map as ‘Children’s burial ground’. According to local information, the court tomb was used as a burial ground for unbaptised infants, with the last burials taking place in the early 20th century. The court tomb is evident as a low grass-covered mound with large stones and boulders protruding from it or lying upon it. No clearly defined graves can be discerned.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.