Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyedmond, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyedmond
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53872, -8.64659
- SMR number
- GA031-004----
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
In a disused gravel pit close to td. boundary. Poorly preserved unenclosed L-shaped area (E-W 30m, N-S 1.5m max.). Known locally as a 'lios', it contains some ten uninscribed limestone grave-markers aligned N-S and set c. 0.8m apart. According to local information, the last burial took place c. 45 years ago.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.