Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Churchpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.74807, -8.80764
- SMR number
- MA103-002003-
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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 graveyard (MA103-002002-), adjacent to a church (MA103-002001-).
A low rectangular platform (17m E-W; 12.4m N−S) abuts the S wall of the church, extending the full E-W length of the wall. It is defined on the E, S and W sides by a grass-covered scarp (H 0.4-0.5m). Small, low uninscribed stone gravemarkers densely cover the platform surface, many set upright in the ground, others apparently lying on the surface. Similar gravemarkers are evident in the interior of the church, particularly numerous on a slightly raised area roughly midway along the N wall.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 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.