Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Inishlee Island, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishlee Island
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08200, -9.25347
- SMR number
- MA039-114003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On Inishlee island in Lough Conn.
Aldridge (1969, 86) includes a burial ground (MA039-114002-) on Inishlee in his list of children's burial grounds in Knockmore Parish. It is not indicated on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps, and no trace was located during an inspection in 1996.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 March 2018
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.