Children's burial ground in Ballincurry

In pasture, c. 200m E of Ballylaur. A flat-topped roughly rectangular grass-covered mound (15m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.75m) with broadly sloping sides known locally as a 'killeen'. According to local information, it was used as a children's burial ground with the last interments taking place in the early 20th century. Also according to local information, the mound was partially levelled in the 1980s and prior to that several stone grave-markers had been visible. During road building in the 1940s, a hole was dug to extract gravel immediately to S of the mound and several adult human bones were exposed which were later reburied; a grass-covered depression is now visible in this area. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008