Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killeenrevagh (kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenrevagh (kilmaine By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.65467, -9.00509
- SMR number
- MA111-061003-
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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 rath (MA111-061001-).
The rath is indicated as a children’s burial ground on the 1930 OS 6-inch map but not on the 1838 edition. Simple, low uninscribed stone gravemarkers are set in the ground throughout the level W half of the rath interior. The overall impression is of a random scatter, but amidst the spread it can be seen that several close-set stones are arranged in rows, aligned roughly N−S or NNW−SSE, some apparently on the line of the relict cultivation ridges which traverse the rath interior.
Immediately outside the rath, at the foot of the scarp at NW, there is a shallow depression (c. 5m NW−SE; c. 4m NE−SW) defined on the NE side by a low sod-covered stony rise and on the SW side by a slight, poorly defined scarp. A few stones protrude from the sod in this hollow and a single large prostrate slab lies on the N edge of the hollow; these may also be gravemarkers.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.