Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyboy (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyboy (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens burial ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.54218, -8.92496
- SMR number
- GA029-013002-
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
Centrally placed within a probable early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA029-013001-). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as an enclosed rectangular area (c. 12m by c. 5m), its long axis running E-W, with a gap midway along N side. What is visible is a rectangular area (NW-SE 6.8m, NE-SW 5.2m) delimited by a single row of limestone boulders. Within the interior are crudely shaped grave-markers, some of which are partially obscured by field-clearance rubble. Mature ash trees are growing at N and S limits.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.