Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Teernakill North, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
- Mine2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.