Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killeen (costello By., Kilbeagh Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (costello By., Kilbeagh Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.93582, -8.85924
- SMR number
- MA062-123002-
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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 rectangular enclosure (MA062-123001).
A roughly square, level elevated area (c. 21m NNE-SSW; c. 20m WNW–ESE) within the interior of the rectangular enclosure (MA062-123001) was used for the burial of unbaptized babies. The majority of the raised area is covered with low, uninscribed stone grave markers. Some stones are set upright in the ground but there is also a scatter of stones that appear to simply rest on the ground. A narrow strip of slightly lower ground (Wth c. 8m) at NE, E and SE remains clear of gravemarkers.
The upright stone gravemarkers are close-set and arranged in rough N-S rows; most protrude no more than 0.3m above the sod. There is an uninscribed prostrate slab, now broken in two, close to the S margin of the burial ground; according to local information, this marks the grave of a local man buried here in the 1930’s (SMR file, 1984). According to tradition, funerals approached the burial ground by following the line of the stony bank on the N and NE side of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 January 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.