Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonalison, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonalison
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.92254, -8.80428
- SMR number
- MA073-002002-
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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 cashel (MA073-002001). A children’s burial ground is indicated at the cashel on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. According to local tradition, two low, sod-covered mound of stones (2.4m E–W; 1.2m N–S; H 0.3m), one located against the inner face of the cashel wall at N and the other abutting the wall at S, are graves.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.