Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Hawksford, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hawksford
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94513, -8.65120
- SMR number
- RO008C005002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Inside the perimeter of cashel (RO008C005001) at SW. Grass-covered cairn (dims 3m E-W; 2m N-S; max. H 1m) with a single whitethorn bush and some diplaced stones (dims 0.5m x 0.3m; T 0.15m) which may have been grave-markers, but there is no local information that it was used as a childrens burial ground.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.