Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Conagher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Conagher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.63873, -8.86344
- SMR number
- GA004-010----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of a knoll in hilly grassland overlooking bogland to N. A subrectangular unenclosed area (n-S 19m, E-W 14m) delimited by a field wall at E. Numerous small set stones are visible, indicating graves oriented E-W. At S, a number of large slabs placed around a bush form a small altar area. According to local information, adult human bones 'about six feet-tall' were discovered whilst digging nearby. An ecclesiastical building (GA004-014----) lies 80m to E and the site of a market place (GA004-013----) c. 125m to ESE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.