Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrownaseer North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaseer North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64302, -8.72823
- SMR number
- GA005-035007-
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
Immediately N and E of a church (GA005-035002-). Numerous small graves, oriented E-W, are visible, many with undressed head- and foot-stones. A small number of burials are also visible to SE. Two of the graves are marked by a reused cross-slab (GA005-035005-) and a tau cross (GA005-035006-) respectively. According to local information, the last interment took place here in the 1940s. (Higgins 1987, 318, 396, nos. 44, 16)
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.