Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballinaboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinaboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64569, -8.12806
- SMR number
- RO040-014005-
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
Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Bones were discovered c. 1912 on the site of a church (RO040-014001-), and it is locally thought to be a childrens burial ground (Ryan 1997, 220-1).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Ryan, H. A. 1997 Aspects of Kilteevan history. In H. A. Ryan (ed.) Kilteevan: A look at a school and its parish. 220-34, Kilteevan. Kilteevan School Board of Management
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.