Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kylemore (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kylemore (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.55313, -9.82236
- SMR number
- GA024-004----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On N-facing hillslope c. 100m S of road, and overlooking Kylemore River beyond it. A roughly hexagonal area (N-S 29m, E-W 27m) delimited by a low slab-built wall. Numerous small set stones are visible in the interior.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairn2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.