Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Inis Bigil, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Bigil
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.99497, -9.89924
- SMR number
- MA043-017----
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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
Situated on top of a low, but prominent, heather-clad hill, affording panoramic views in all directions.
This burial ground consists of a rectangular area (22.9m N-S; 20.85m E-W) enclosed by a relatively modern stone wall. The interior ground level is uneven. According to local information, it was used as a burial place of unbaptized babies and of drowned sailors who were washed up on the island. No headstones are visible. There is a dense growth of ferns in the interior.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 October 2018
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structure2 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.