Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrowkeribly, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeribly
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06535, -9.11311
- SMR number
- MA039-082001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the SW quadrant of a rath (MA039-082----). A low, square earthen platform (5m NE–SW; 5m NW–SE) defined by a stony scarp or remnants of a wall (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) abuts the inner face of the rath bank at SW. According to local tradition, it was used for burials of unbaptised babies.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.