Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Glencraff, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencraff
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.57555, -9.74134
- SMR number
- GA011-001----
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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 a natural shelf, on W side of valley at limit of formerly cultivated land. A roughly rectangular area (L c. 20m, Wth c. 8m) with traces of a possible enclosing stone and earth bank on SW side. Numerous small stones, mainly displaced, are visible within it, including some which outline small rectangular graves, aligned E-W. Some head- and foot-stones are also visible.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.