Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Churchpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74813, -8.80766
- SMR number
- MA103-002002-
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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 broad expanse of average pasture, located on a low rise with a fall of ground towards a stream 75m to N. An area of wet boggy ground extends to N of the stream.
A slightly raised, roughly rectangular area (c. 40m E−W; c. 30m N−S) with a ruined stone-built church (MA103-002001-) in the centre. The perimeter cannot be traced on the SW angle and is barely discernible at W. It is clearly defined on the N side by a grass-covered scarp (H 1.5m; Wth slope 5m) which is enhanced by a natural fall of ground, and on the E side by a lower, slumped scarp (H 0.6m; Wth slope 2.5m). The S portion is occupied by a children’s burial ground (MA103-002003-) on a low platform which abuts the S wall of the church.
This enclosure appears to be the remains of a graveyard associated with the church. It is not indicated on the 1838 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps, and no gravemarkers are evident within the area to W, N or E of the church, suggesting that it went out of use at an early stage, long before the southern portion was reused as a children’s burial ground. A field wall on a roughly NW−SE axis crosses the graveyard merging with the S wall of the church.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.