Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Derreennagusfoor, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreennagusfoor
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Crukaunnapostha (Infants Burial Ground)
- Coordinates
- 53.46050, -9.49455
- SMR number
- GA039-009----
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 an oval hillock in bogland NW of Loch an Iarainn. All that is visible of this CBG, correctly Cnocán na bPáistí are some small stones outlining two to three rectangular graves beside a thorntree. There is a large limestone erratic at NW end of the hillock (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
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.