Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Tully (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tully (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81593, -8.41259
- SMR number
- RO021-022009-
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
At the outer edge of a shelf towards the bottom of a S-facing slope, overlooking a bog to the SE and on the S side of the NE-SW Bellanagare to Castlerea road. A rectangular platform (RO021-022008-) which may be rock-outcrop is at the apex of a D-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (RO021-022012-). There is a tradition of its use as a children’s burial ground and as a graveyard (RO021-022010-) (Knox 1902c, 188-9), but there is no evidence of burial.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 3 July 2015
References
Knox, H.T. 1902c Miscellanea - Bullauns, forming two of St. Patrick's Wells in Connaught. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 188-90.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical 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.