Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Rusheenduff, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rusheenduff
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.61053, -9.99562
- SMR number
- GA009-017----
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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
Just above foreshore on rough grazing land. An unenclosed, roughly wedge-shaped area (N-S 15.2m, E-W 30m). Numerous small set stones, mainly beach boulders, are visible, including some of white quartz. A number of rectangular graves (L c. 1m, Wth 0.4m) are present, defined by head-, foot- and sidestones. (Hardiman 1846, 120)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.