Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lowpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95998, -8.80020
- SMR number
- MA063-004002-
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
According to local tradition, the interior of the rath was used as a children’s burial ground, at least until the end of the 19th-century. There are no visible remains of graves.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.