Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Stonepark South, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stonepark South
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.70033, -8.65644
- SMR number
- RO032-024001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a fairly level landscape towards the E edge of a plateau. Rectangular grass-covered area (ext. dims 18.6m E-W; 9.3m N-S), which may have been a church (RO032-024002-), defined by the base of a wall (T 0.9m) intermittently visible through a grass-covered stoney mound which has several rows of grave-markers (dims c. 0.3m x 0.1m; H 0.25m) aligned N-S. (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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.