Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Clooncah, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncah
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84152, -8.84902
- SMR number
- MA081-046002-
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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 possible rath (MA081-046001-). There may have been a children’s burial ground at this enclosure (pers. comm. Leo Morahan). There are no obvious traces of gravemarkers or burials.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.