Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrowgarve (Tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgarve (Tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilcormick Burial Gd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeencormack Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 54.01975, -9.20843
- SMR number
- MA048-037002-
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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 a SE facing slope, 30m from an inlet on the SE shoreline of Lough Conn.
Named ‘Kilcormac Grave Yard’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and ‘Killeencormack Burial Gd.’ on the 1922 edition,and listed by Aldridge (1969, 86-7) as a children’s burial ground. Slightly raised subtriangular area (28.3m NW-SE; 27.9m NNE-SSW) delimited in a broad curve at SSW−N by a low poorly defined scarp, and at E and S by linear field boundary walls. On the raised area are a considerable number of low, uninscribed upright stone gravemarkers. There are also a small number of tiny stone-lined graves. The burial ground may have been the site of a church (MA048-037001-). Built into the field boundary wall at E is a bullaun stone (see MA 048-037003-).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.