Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Grange (killererin Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (killererin Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Gd. for Children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.49043, -8.78223
- SMR number
- GA044-065002-
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
Immediately S of church (GA044-065001-). Irregular area (E-W 44.6m, N-S 12.4m max.) defined along N side by a field wall, and along SE side by traces of a grassed-over stony bank. Numerous haphazardly placed set stones indicate graves, including a number of cut-stone fragments from the adjoining church.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.