Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Doire Bhéal An Mháma, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Bhéal An Mháma
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48430, -9.66516
- SMR number
- GA038-009001-
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
On W-facing hillslope c. 150m NNW of td. boundary and c. 300m E of the junction of the Bun na gCnoc road and the trackway leading to Maumeen and St Patrick's Well (GA038-003002-). An unenclosed oval area (c. 13m by c. 12m) on S side of a knoll within which many small set boulders are visible (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.