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Burial ground

Inishlee Island, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Inishlee Island, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Inishlee Island
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.08199, -9.25346
SMR number
MA039-114002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On Inishlee island in Lough Conn.
This burial ground is not indicated on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps, however, the 1838 OS Letters record that ‘On Inislee, Inis-Laogh –the Island of the Calves-, which lies in the north end of Lough Conn, it is said there was formerly a burial ground, which fell into disuse.’ (Flanagan 1927, 28 (12)). There may have been a church (MA039-114001-) associated with the burial ground, and Aldridge (1969, 86) records that it was used as a children's burial ground (MA039-114003-). It was not located during an inspection in 1996.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 March 2018

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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