Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrownadurly, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownadurly
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46767, -8.21178
- SMR number
- RO047-102----
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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
At the bottom of a slight N-facing slope overlooking a turlough. Oval grass-covered mound (dims of base 5.8m N-S; 4.7m E-W; H 0.3m) with stones (dims c. 0.4m x c. 0.6m) laid flat on it. A drystone-built field walls circumvent the mound SE-W c. 10-12m distant. It is known locally to have been used as a Children's Burial Ground.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.