Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Sylaunnagran, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sylaunnagran
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.58163, -8.78529
- SMR number
- GA017-149----
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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
In gently undulating grassland, c. 70m NE of td. boundary. A roughly D-shaped area (NW-SE 24.5m, NE-SW 24m) enclosed by an earthen bank with both an internal and external fosse. Within the interior, there are in excess of 200 small set stones indicating graves oriented E-W. Near the centre is a low cairn (L 2.3m, Wth 2m) built of loose limestone pebbles.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.