Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
An Camanach, County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Boundary mound2 mi
- Ringfort - cashel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.