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Children's burial ground

Sylaunnagran, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Sylaunnagran, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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