Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortakeeran
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.16419, -8.65183
- SMR number
- SL025-027001-
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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
Located c. 2 km WSW of the village of Rockfield. In rough grazing, at the base of a SE-facing slope and in the SW quadrant of an enclosure (SL025-027002-). A rectangular platform (10m WNW-ESE; 5.5m ENE-WSW) defined on three sides by the remains of a stone wall (Wth 1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) and on the fourth side by the W wall of the enclosure. The surface of the platform is covered with sod-covered stones including some small upright slabs, probably grave-markers. Several more similar stones and slabs were noted in the area to the S and SW of the platform. According to O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 61), unbaptised children were buried here. There is a souterrain (SL025-153----) c. 100m to W.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.