Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Bracklaghboy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bracklaghboy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77423, -8.78865
- SMR number
- MA093-094----
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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 pasture field marked by several gentle undulations and small domed rises.
According to local information (SMR file), there is a ‘cillin’ or children’s burial ground at this location. A number of undulations are visible in the field, but no above ground structural evidence of a burial ground.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.