Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonkeen (kelly), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkeen (kelly)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.53816, -8.44129
- SMR number
- GA032-016----
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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
On a S-facing slope overlooking the Kingstown River to W. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a very small C-shaped area (D c. 8m). Now indicated by a subrectangular unenclosed raised area (L 8.2m, Wth 6.3m) within which are a number of small set stones indicating graves aligned WNW-ESE. Possibly a CBG.
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.