Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Cloonfane, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonfane
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.95261, -8.72511
- SMR number
- MA063-028001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · 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
In a cashel (MA063-028001).
A burial ground is indicated in the cashel on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. The cashel interior is bisected, slightly S of centre, by a stone wall (Wth 0.8m; H 0.8m) on an E-W axis. To S of the bisecting wall, several small, low upright uninscribed stone slabs protrude from the ground. They appear to be grave markers. The area in general is strewn with much stone, and largely obscured by blackthorn. According to local information the burials were mainly of unbaptised babies.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.