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Children's burial ground

Cloonnaglasha, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Cloonnaglasha, 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
Cloonnaglasha
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisgauran Childrens Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Lisgauran Childrens Burial Gd.
Coordinates
53.53924, -8.95832
SMR number
GA029-060001-

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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

Close to N bank of a stream in rolling pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a small roughly rectangular area and recorded in OS Letters as 'a burying place for children ... called Lios gárán, Lissgauraun' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1 26). All that survives is an unenclosed roughly square area (L/Wth 9.5m) within which a few rows of shapeless set stones, aligned N-S, indicate graves oriented E-W. According to local information, the last burial took place in 1945. A holy well (GA029-060002-) is associated; see also GA029-060----

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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