Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Meeltraun (Denis Kelly), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meeltraun (Denis Kelly)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67717, -8.72298
- SMR number
- RO032-050001-
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 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the SW edge of a low plateau. Circular heather-covered area (diam. c. 20m) defined by intermittently visible boulders (dims c. 0.5m x c. 0.5m). Mass-rock (RO032-05002-) is immediately to the S. (Fitzmaurice 1988)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Fitzmaurice, M. 1988 Ballinlough - Kiltullagh. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 42.
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.