Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballybane Upper, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybane Upper
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71546, -8.65639
- SMR number
- RO032-016003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the base of a SW-facing slope on the floor of a NW-SE valley. A grass-covered area (dims. c. 18m NE-W; c. 8m NW-SE) on the SE side of a NE-SW field wall has some large stones (dims. c. 0.5m x 0.5m x c. 0.5m) and some smaller stones, which was used for burial into the beginning of the 20th century. A bullaun stone (RO032-016001-) (dims. 0.4m x 0.4m; H 0.22m) with a single basin (dims. 0.3m x 0.25m; D 0.1m) has been moved to the RC church at Garranlahan (RO032-015004-).
(Timoney 1996A, 11)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Timoney, M. A. 1996a Additions to the landscape around Granlahan, Co. Roscommon. In Mary Ruane (ed.) Souveneir of Granlahan Monastery and primary school re-union 1850-1996. Granlahan.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.