Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Rosleague, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosleague
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55074, -9.98456
- SMR number
- GA023-045----
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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 rough pastureland on a flat sheltered terrace between two outcropping rocky ridges. This unenclosed children's burial ground (c. 10m N-S; 9m E-W) is defined graves marked by simple shale grave-markers (max. H 0.3m). About 15 grave-markers are visible as well some possible stone-lined graves - one large subrectangular example (2.2m E-W; 1.3m N-S; H 0.6m) resembles a leacht. According to local information, some Spanish sailors who drowned off a ship delivering coal at the nearby pier in Letterfrack are also buried here.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock based on information supplied by Leo Morahan
Date of upload: 14 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.