Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Quinaltagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quinaltagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.63787, -8.80820
- SMR number
- GA005-099002-
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
Within SW quadrant of a ringfort (GA005-099----). Unenclosed irregular area (E-W c. 18m, N-S c. 9m) within which numerous small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. Centrally placed within it is a low circular earthen mound (D 2.5m, H < 0.3m), possibly the remains of an altar.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.