Grave Yard MA027-001001- in Largan Beg

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What is recorded here

Situated on a steep SW facing hillside, in rough mountainous terrain. This children’s burial ground is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as ‘Grave Yard’ and on the 1921 edition as ‘Grave Yd. (Disused)’. It consists of roughly triangular-shaped area (14.3m NE-SW; 12.3m NW-SE) bordered by field boundaries from WSW−ESE and by a stream from ESE−S. In the interior there is a crude altar (027-001002-) at the NNW, and numerous graves marked by slabs, boulders and roughly square stone settings. Aldridge (1969, 86) noted a cross-inscribed stone (MA027-001003-) on the altar.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA027-001001

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Ireland’s National Parks project; photographer not stated, Ireland’s National Parks project

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