Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Westquarter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Westquarter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.61544, -10.23254
- SMR number
- GA009D025001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA009D025002-). Numerous small set stones are visible in the interior of the enclosure, with a particular concentration at the E end on the site of a reputed oratory (GA009D025003-).
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revised upload: 24 June 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.