Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballymore, County Westmeath, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.