Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Fountainhill Or Knockavilra, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fountainhill Or Knockavilra
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.52738, -10.13530
- SMR number
- GA022-039----
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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 sandy pasture c. 25m NW of point where the td. boundary meets the shore. An unenclosed roughly rectangular area (L 17m, Wth 13.5m), within which small set stones are visible, some outlining small rectangular grave-plots (L 1.1-2.2m, Wth c. 0.65m) aligned E-W.
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
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.