Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballaghcullia, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghcullia
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caltragh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caltragh
- Coordinates
- 53.84689, -8.37451
- SMR number
- RO015-047002-
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
On a gentle E-facing slope within ecclesiastical enclosure (RO014-047003-). It consists of a small rectangular stone-lined grave (int. dims 1.2m N-S; 0.8m E-W) with other stones extending from it to the W. A small Latin cross (RO015-047006-) is associated with it. (Martin 1992, 19)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Martin, E. 1992 Bellanagare. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 4, 18-19.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.