Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Mám Trasna, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mám Trasna
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockaunnabausty (Childrens Burial Ground)
- Coordinates
- 53.58143, -9.50567
- SMR number
- MA120A001----
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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 rough, upland pasture, located on a SE-facing slope just below the summit of a rocky hill.
This children’s burial ground is shown on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps where it is named ‘Knockaunnabausty’. It consists of a roughly square area (16m N−S; 16m E−W) enclosed by a post-and-wire fence, with a wooden gate at the SE corner. The ground surface in the interior is thickly covered in heather. Low, rough uninscribed stones can be seen protruding above the heather in parts, and other stones can be felt underfoot; some of these may be gravemarkers. A modern cross of ‘Celtic’ design, stands in the NE corner of the enclosure, and has the following engraved inscription: ‘Ciúin. Cruacán na bpáiste. Children’s burial ground’.
Attached image:
MA120A001----_01.JPG Viewed from NW
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.