Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Fortyacres (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fortyacres (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.53103, -8.82745
- SMR number
- GA029-074001-
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
Abutting ringfort (GA029-074----) at SSW. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an enclosed rectangular area; only NW and SE sides now survive (NW-SE 16m, NE-SW 13m). These are defined by a low bank, which runs along the outer edge of the fosse on NW side. The interior is level and grass-covered and no visible surface trace of any grave-markers survives. (Costello 1903, 10; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 65; ASGAP 167;57)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.