Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Knockatee East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatee East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.62530, -8.76714
- SMR number
- GA017-127001-
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 an enclosure (GA017-127----), most of which appears to have been recently levelled. All that survives of the CBG are displaced grave-markers which lie scattered on field-clearance rubble. (Neary 1914, 116, no. 72).
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.