Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cappalisheen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappalisheen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46636, -8.02255
- SMR number
- RO048-158002-
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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 a slight rise overlooking a basin to the E and SE with higher hills c. 500m to the E and c. 1km to the N. About 10 cairns (diam. c. 3m; H 0.5m) in the N central area of hilltop enclosure (RO048-158001-) are regarded locally as a Children's Burial Ground.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.