Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonagh (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonagh (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.60850, -8.80211
- SMR number
- GA017-071001-
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 NE quadrant of a hilltop enclosure (GA017-071----). All that survives is a low subrectangular grassy mound (NW-SE 16m, E-W 6m); no grave-markers are visible.
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
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.