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
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.93875, -8.64312
- SMR number
- RO008C008----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 18.5m N-S; 12.5m E-W) defined by drystone walls with a stile to the remnant of a disused N-S track at E. It contains eight N-S rows of large grave-markers (dims c. 0.4m x 0.1m; H 0.6m) at the head and smaller stones (dims c. 0.3m x 0.1m; H 0.35m) at the feet of individual graves. One marker (H 0.75m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.15m) has a crudely-inscribed cross.
See the attached view from the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.