Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonfaghna, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonfaghna
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66599, -8.41371
- SMR number
- GA007-045003-
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 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · 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
In E half of a large enclosure (GA007-045001-). An irregular area (N-S 24m, E-W 20m) delimited by a line of grassed-over boulders within which a number of small grassed-over set stones are visible. According to local information, it was used for burial up to about 1935.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.