Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyheeragh (st. Leger), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyheeragh (st. Leger)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60602, -9.00507
- SMR number
- MA119-048001-
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 (MA119-048----). According to local tradition, the interior of the rath was used for the burial of unbaptised babies. No graves are visible.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of Upload: 22 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.