Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lysterfield, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lysterfield
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51127, -8.12660
- SMR number
- RO045-232----
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
On a rise in an undulating low-lying landscape. There is local information on the former site of a children's burial ground, of which nothing remains. Archaeological testing (03E1196) in the vicinity failed to produce any related material (Byrne 2006b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Byrne, M. 2006b Lysterfield: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 424, No. 1584. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.