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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53277, -9.20070
- SMR number
- MA121-142002-
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
There is a local tradition that a possible barrow (MA121-142001-) was used as a children’s burial ground (Lavelle 1994, 99, no. 675).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.