Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyheeragh (Caslane), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyheeragh (Caslane)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60522, -8.99710
- SMR number
- MA119-051001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a rath (MA119-050----).
According to local information, the rath was used for the burial of unbaptised babies. There is a dense concentration of low, uninscribed stone grave-markers in the E and SE of the rath interior, with some arranged in N−S or NE−SW rows, and a number of clustered arrangements of stones outline roughly square grave plots (max. dim. c. 7m). Fewer grave-markers are visible in the W half of the rath, but there are several small, grass-covered bumps which may be graves.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.