Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballymacredmond (Tirawley By., Ballynahaglish Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacredmond (Tirawley By., Ballynahaglish Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05095, -9.16807
- SMR number
- MA039-098003-
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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
At a court tomb (MA039-098001). Aldridge (1969, 86) recorded that the court tomb, which was known locally as 'Corrigeen', was used as a children's burial ground. No graves are now evident.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 January 2015
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
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.