Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lurga Upper, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurga Upper
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92300, -8.78276
- SMR number
- MA073-059002-
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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 possible cashel (MA073-059001-).
There is a tradition that the cashel interior was used as children’s burial ground. According to local information, a feature was uncovered slightly W of centre in the cashel, which had the appearance of a grave. It consisted of a row of flat stones, aligned roughly E–W, with a low upright stone at one end. The upright stone (Wth 0.4m; T 0.15m; H 0.10m) was left in situ but the flagstones were removed. Underneath was a shallow layer of damp soil of a different consistency to the soil elsewhere in the interior. This layer overlay natural gravel subsoil; no bones were found.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.