Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonkeen South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkeen South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.46200, -8.85460
- SMR number
- GA043-060002-
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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
Within SE quadrant of early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA043-06001-). An almost rectangular unenclosed raised area (N-S 9m, E-W 6m) within which numerous roughly cut set stones indicate graves oriented E-W.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.