Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Rockfield (clanmorris By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockfield (clanmorris By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76815, -8.96123
- SMR number
- MA092-057002-
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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
At an enclosure (MA092-057001-) known as ‘Lisheen’. According to local information, the interior of the enclosure was used for the burial of unbaptized babies. No graves are now evident at surface level.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 16 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.