What is recorded here

Knockaunnabausty marks a children’s burial ground on a SE-facing slope below a rocky hill in County Mayo, preserved within a post-and-wire fence and thick heather. Rough uninscribed stones protrude through the ground, while a modern Celtic cross stands in the NE corner with the inscription “Ciúin. Cruacán na bpáiste. Children’s burial ground.” The name appears on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps, tying the quiet upland place to a long-local memory of loss.

In rough, upland pasture, located on a SE-facing slope just below the summit of a rocky hill. This children’s burial ground is shown on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps where it is named ‘Knockaunnabausty’. It consists of a roughly square area (16m N−S; 16m E−W) enclosed by a post-and-wire fence, with a wooden gate at the SE corner. The ground surface in the interior is thickly covered in heather. Low, rough uninscribed stones can be seen protruding above the heather in parts, and other stones can be felt underfoot; some of these may be gravemarkers. A modern cross of ‘Celtic’ design, stands in the NE corner of the enclosure, and has the following engraved inscription: ‘Ciúin. Cruacán na bpáiste. Children’s burial ground’. Attached image: MA120A001----_01.JPG Viewed from NW Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 April 2019

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