Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lissatava, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissatava
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65141, -9.07449
- SMR number
- MA111-050001-
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
Located in a rath (MA111-050----). According to local information, the rath was used for the burial of unbaptized babies. The rath interior is engulfed in overgrowth; no gravemarkers were evident.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.