Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Carrowcally, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcally
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81327, -9.61304
- SMR number
- MA087-081001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a rath (MA087-081001-). According local tradition, the rath interior was used as a burial ground during the Famine, and also possibly for the burial of unbaptized babies. No graves are evident now at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 February 20
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.