Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Shanaghmoyle, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanaghmoyle
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81592, -8.89753
- SMR number
- MA081-025001-
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
In a rath (MA081-025----). According to local tradition, unbaptized babies were buried in the rath. Low moss-covered stones, some of which appear to be set upright, are visible beneath dense overgrowth in the rath interior; these may be gravemarkers.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.