Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrowbeg (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbeg (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.86734, -8.77892
- SMR number
- MA082-001002-
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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 rath (MA082-001001-). A children’s burial ground is indicated at the rath on the 1916 OS 6-inch map.
Low, uninscribed upright stones in the W half of the interior may be gravemarkers. There is a roughly rectangular setting (3m NE–SW; 0.8m NW–SE) of upright slabs at the NW terminal of the outermost bank. Its function is unclear but it may also mark a grave.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.