Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lissaleen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissaleen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissaleen
- Coordinates
- 53.58330, -8.94155
- SMR number
- GA016-106001-
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
On S-facing slope of a rise in grassland. An almost circular rath (N-S 47m, E-W 46.5m), in fair condition, defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. The inner bank survives at W, N and E; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The middle bank survives from S through W to N, and the outermost fosse and bank are visible only at SSW. A number of field banks and a road skirt the monument The interior is disturbed by tillage ridges running N-S.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.