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Children's burial ground

Ballyboy (Dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Ballyboy, 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
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-

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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

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

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

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