Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gortnalea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnalea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.63716, -8.78136
- SMR number
- GA005-070001-
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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
Within W section of a ringfort (GA005-070----). Traditionally known as a CBG and referred to by Neary (1914, 121, no. 66) as 'a cemetery'. No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, the last burials were those of an unfortunate family who lost six or seven children c. 50 years ago.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.