Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lenamore (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lenamore (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.57687, -8.83261
- SMR number
- GA016-094001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within a ringfort (GA016-094----). An irregularly shaped area (E-W 28.8m, N-S 14m) enclosed on W and N sides by a low grassed-over earthen bank and elsewhere by the ringfort bank. Within it, the main concentration of burials is in an unenclosed subrectangular section (E-W 14.2m, N-S 11m). Here, small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. In use until c. 55 years ago. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 65)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.