Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonascragh (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonascragh (Clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.48552, -8.85428
- SMR number
- GA043-045001-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Within a ringfort (GA043-045----). According to local information, the interior of the ringfor twas used as a CBG up to 46 years ago. It is indicated by an irregular unenclosed overgrown area (NE-SW c. 10m) within which a number of randomly scattered set stones are 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.