Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Coolnaha South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnaha South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.80359, -8.76095
- SMR number
- MA093-014002-
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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
Located in the E half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (MA093-014001-) which also encloses a ringfort (MA093-014005-).
This children’s burial ground is known locally as the ‘Caldragh’. A roughly trapezoidal area (32.2m NE–SW; 28.7m NW–SE at NE end, 35m at SW end) defined on NE side by a stone bank/wall footings (2.30m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m), on SE by a scarp (1.2m) cut into the natural slope, on SW by a low stony rise or scarp. To NW the enclosing element is barely discernible.
Traces of an internal division on a NW–SE axis can be seen in the SW of the interior. Located to NE of centre, there is a low sod-covered rise (c. 3m N–S; 2m E-W; H 0.2m) possibly a grave. To N of this a number of ephemeral parallel linear rises, on a NW–SE axis can be seen traversing the interior. Along the line of the SW enclosing wall, there is a concentration of stones, some prostrate, some protruding upright from the sod, including a single, crudely cross-shaped stone (H 0.43m; Wth of arms 0.4m; T 0.08m). A bullaun stone (MA093-014003-) is incorporated into the N end this wall.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.