Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballymartin,frenchbrook North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymartin,frenchbrook North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen (Childrens Burial Gd.)
- Coordinates
- 53.58069, -9.15121
- SMR number
- MA121-018001-
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 low-lying pasture, at base of rise. Marked ‘Burying Ground’ on OS map (1838). Subrectangular area (L 33m N-S), enclosed by low stone wall on three sides. Numerous grave markers noted.
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. 672.
Date of upload: 12 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.