Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killeenduff (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenduff (tireragh By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Black Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Black Grave Yd,
- Coordinates
- 54.28019, -8.92138
- SMR number
- SL011-049----
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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 slight SSW-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Named as 'Black Grave Yard' and indicated as a roughly rectangular area (c. 70m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There is no visible enclosing element at ground level. The site is known locally as a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.