Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
An Chloch Bhreac íochtair, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Chloch Bhreac íochtair
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.54831, -9.44203
- SMR number
- GA026-004001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Within a ringfort (GA026-004----). Though named on OS 6-inch maps and known in local tradition as a CBG, no visible surface trace of it survives.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassified1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.