Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Grallagh (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grallagh (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.74678, -8.76330
- SMR number
- MA103-008002-
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
In undulating pasture, on a low rise. Ground dips gently to E towards a roughly N−S stream/drain.
A rectangular earthen platform (12m E–W; 6m N–S; H 0.6m) abuts the S wall of a ruined rectangular church (MA103-008001-). The N side of the platform is crossed by an E-W field wall, which incorporates the S wall of the church. The platform is defined on the other three sides by a slumped, sod-covered stony scarp (H 0.6m), with a dilapidated break/low area in the centre of the S side. Many low, uninscribed upright stone gravemarkers, some arranged in N−S rows, protrude from the surface of the platform, interspersed with occasional small recumbent slabs.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.