Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Castlehacket, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlehacket
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.49962, -8.99209
- SMR number
- GA042-083----
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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
In grassland near the foot of Knockmaa. A trapezoidal area (E-W 14.7m, N-S 12.3m max.), partially enclosed along W and N sides by a collapsed stone wall. Within the interior are numerous set stones, arranged in N-S running rows, indicating graves oriented E-W. One or two rectangular graves are also visible.
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.