Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cashel Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91478, -9.17437
- SMR number
- MA070-056----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the lower E slopes of steep pasture ridge. Reported as a Children’s Burial Ground (SMR file). A densely overgrown rectangular area (L c. 75m E-W; Wth c. 15m at E to c. 20m at W) in otherwise open pasture is still regarded locally as containing a Children’s Burial Ground. No obvious grave markers are visible.
See attached image: MA070-056----_01 View of site from upslope to WNW
Date of visit: 07-03-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.