Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Barreel, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barreel
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73732, -9.09049
- SMR number
- MA101-103001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a mound (MA101-103----). According to local tradition, a ‘Lisheen’, where unbaptized babies were buried, was located at or in close proximity to the mound. There is no visible trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.