Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Roos, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roos
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.61908, -9.04716
- SMR number
- MA119-028002-
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 a rath (MA119-028001-).
The interior of the rath was used for the burial of unbaptised babies. Several small, low moss-covered unshaped and uninscribed stones protrude from the ground. These appear to be gravemarkers. Due to dense overgrowth, they are difficult to see, and it was not possible to determine their density or any pattern in their layout.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.