Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Sheepwalk, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheepwalk
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.88610, -8.44267
- SMR number
- RO015-002002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a flat landscape with rock outcrop, and at the centre of the enclosure (RO015-002001-). Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 24m WNW-ESE; 22.5m NNE-SSW) defined by grass-covered stone spreads (Wth 1.45-3.6m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.25-1.15m) on three sides and by a scarp (H 0.8m) at S. There is no visible entrance or facing stones, but the interior has lines of NNE-SSW grave-markers. Relict field banks, visible as grass-covered stone spreads, connect it to the perimeter of the surrounding enclosure at NE, E and S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.