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Children's burial ground

An Camanach, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, An Camanach, 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
An Camanach
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Billew Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.55497, -9.55866
SMR number
GA025-003002-

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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

On lower hillslopes, close to head of a valley, overlooking Lough Mask to E. Noted in OS Letters as 'A burial place for children called Billow trees [sic]' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 42), it now consists of an unenclosed and roughly wedge-shaped area (L 12m, Wth 8m) occupied by small set stones, indicating graves oriented E-W. Some head- and foot-stones are visible and a row of hawthorn bushes defines N edge. A holy well (GA025-003001-) lies c. 30m to NW.

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

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

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