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Children's burial ground

Ballymore, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Ballymore, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballymore
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.49355, -7.67063
SMR number
WM024-005003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The ruins of a 17th century mausoleum or mortuary chapel (WM024-005002-) stands in the eastern quadrant of Ballymore graveyard (WM024-005002-) which is enclosed by a late 18th or early 19th century stone wall built by the Magan family with entrance gate at S. The Church of Ireland church dedicated to St. Owen was built in 1827 on the site of the medieval church (WM024-005----) and stands in the centre of the graveyard. A low circular-depression (dims. c. 18m NW-SE x 9m NE-SW) on the external face of the E wall of the graveyard located off centre to N which according to local information may be the remains of a possible children's burial ground (pers. comm. Grace Corbett).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Grace Corbet, Archaeologist, National Monuments Service

Date of upload: 26 May 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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