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Children's burial ground

Fortyacres (Dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland

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

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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

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

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

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