Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Mullaghglass, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghglass
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.59994, -9.94643
- SMR number
- GA010-022----
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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
In a small hollow by a streamlet just above shoreline. Known locally as Lios or Cillín (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of an unenclosed triangular ridge and furrow plot (N-S 20m; E-W 27m) overlain by burials. The latter are marked by numerous small set stones, some with head- and foot-stones, aligned roughly E-W. A number of graves are outlined by water-rolled white quartz pebbles. It is said that Famine victims were also buried here (ibid.).
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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassified1 mi
- Chapel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.