Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gortacoosan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacoosan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45724, -8.04841
- SMR number
- RO048-115002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 the crest of a slight NNE-SSW ridge in an undulating landscape. There are some small cairns (diam. 2-3m; H 0.5-0.7m) in the interior of rath (O048-115001-) and local information on its use as a Children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.