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Children's burial ground

Teernakill North, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Teernakill North, 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
Teernakill North
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Derreennabreena Burial Ground
Coordinates
53.50900, -9.58067
SMR number
GA038-007----

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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

At the foot of low S-facing cliffs in rough grazing land. This burial ground, correctly Doirfn na Bruighne (pers. comm. T. Robinson), consists of a roughly rectangular unenclosed area (N-S c. 30m, E-W c. 20m), cut by a modern pathway running E-W, and delimited on N and W by modern walls. Traces of a short stretch of older wall also survive at SE. A number of small set stones and thorn trees are visible, particularly in N half of the interior, and a ruinous subcircular drystone leacht (D. 1.5m) in S half. A holy well (GA038-006----) lies c. 130m to W.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

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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