Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Skrine, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skrine
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55898, -8.16074
- SMR number
- RO042-142002-
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
Situated on the SW-facing slope of a SE-NW valley in a karst landscape. The interior of the church (RO042-142----) and the part of the enclosure (RO042-142001-) to the NE of the church was utilised as a children's burial ground. It is a trapezoidal area (dims 10-20m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) occupied by stone grave-markers (dims c. 0.3m x 0.4m x 0.5m), many upright or tilted, but most are laid flat.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.