Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonliffen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonliffen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.61775, -9.26116
- SMR number
- MA117-018002-
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 meadow. Marked on OS map (1838) as 'Grave Yard'; in earthwork (MA117-018001-). Square shaped mound (17.4m N-S; 18m E-W; H 0.7m) containing several grave markers.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 670.
Date of upload: 6 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.