Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballynew (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynew (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.55799, -10.08198
- SMR number
- GA022-004----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On N side of road close to foot of a hillslope. Known locally as Poll na bPéist (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of an unenclosed rectangular area (L 28m, Wth 23m) occupied by a dense concentration of small set stones, indicating graves oriented E-W. Head- and foot-stones are visible in places. It is said that Famine victims were buried here as well as children (ibid).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.