Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Castle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground for Children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.63279, -8.65318
- SMR number
- GA006-038----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On top of a rise in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly square area (L/Wth c. 10m); on inspection in June 1984 it was defined by a semicircular unenclosed area (N-S c. 14m) within which a number of small set stones marked graves. On re-inspection in September 2009, it was found that the burial ground had been cordoned off with a wooden post and wire fence and the area immediately outside the fence was heavily poached.
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).
The following images have been uploaded:
GA006-038----_02.jpg Overall view from N
GA006-038----_04.jpg Interior from S
Edited by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 22 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.