Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Sonnagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sonnagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95701, -8.83554
- SMR number
- MA062-033001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a rath (MA062-033). According to a local tradition that the interior of the rath was used as a children’s burial ground. Only the W half of the rath survives; the interior is level and grass-covered and no above ground evidence of graves is apparent.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.