Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Boleythomas, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boleythomas
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.56427, -8.41456
- SMR number
- GA032-010----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland bordered by a stream to S which marks a B. boundary. Linear unenclosed CBG (E-W 40.5m, N-S 3.2m) cut by a field wall near E end. Within it are numerous set stones of sandstone and shale, indicating graves oriented E-W. The 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) depicts it as having been c. 95m in length.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassified2 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.