Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Houndswood North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Houndswood North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen; Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.53462, -9.20904
- SMR number
- MA121-139001-
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 wettish pasture, beside holy well (MA121-139002-). Rectangular area (23m N-S; 20m E-W), bounded S to E by stone field fences. Over 70 grave markers, a sandstone slab and a burial dating to 1919.
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. 674.
Date of upload: 13 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.