Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kildermot, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildermot
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 54.05832, -9.09010
- SMR number
- MA040-074002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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
Located adjacent to a Kildermot church (MA040-074001-), on a narrow ridge top overlooking Balymore Lake.
A strip of relatively level ground on the ridge top wraps around the E, S and SW side of the church forming an irregular-shaped terrace from the edge of which there is a steep drop to the lake shore. This terrace has been used as a children’s burial ground, indicated on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps. The SE−S edge of the terrace is defined by a scarp (H 2m) merging with the steep ridge slope, and at SW−W by a low sod-covered stony scarp (H c. 0.5m). The church borders the NW side of the burial area and field fences define its limits at NE and W. The enclosed grass-grown space (c. 30m NE−SW; c. 15m NW−SE at E end, 5.4m NW−SE at SW end) is dotted with numerous, low upright uninscribed stone grave-markers, most of which barely protrude above the ground surface.
Attached images:
MA040-074002-_01.JPG viewed from SW
MA040-074002-_02.JPG viewed from S
MA040-074002-_03.JPG viewed from N
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.