What is recorded here

Altar in Largan Beg stands at the north-west edge of a children’s burial ground in County Mayo, a crude platform of rough stones measuring about one and three-quarter metres across. Four water-worn stones still mark its corners, and a cross-inscribed stone lies upon it, suggesting prayer rather than display. The altar belongs to a place where small lives were laid to earth, and its plain build may have served the people who grieved there.

In a children’s burial ground (MA027-001001-). There is a altar (1.75m E-W; 1.65m N-S; max H 1.2m), crudely constructed of stones, at the NNW end of the burial ground. Aldridge (1969, 86) recorded it as ‘an altar of rough stones, with a curiously shaped water worn stone standing at each corner’. Aldridge (1969, 86) noted a cross-inscribed stone (MA027-001003-) on the altar. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy and Paddy O’Donovan Date of upload: 12 December 2017

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