Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Knockatemple, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatemple
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.89148, -9.11000
- SMR number
- MA070-167003-
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
A graveyard (MA070-167002-) which contains a medieval church (MA070-167001-) was used a children’s burial ground. Several uninscribed stone gravemarkers are visible.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 November 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.