Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Patch (mountbellew Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Patch (mountbellew Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.47119, -8.57980
- SMR number
- GA045-044----
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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 esker overlooking Loch Nalaradh to W. Unenclosed irregular area (N-S 32m, E-W 12m) defined along W side by a field wall. Within the interior, numerous set stones, aligned N-S, indicate graves oriented E-W. There is an is an iron cross NW quadrant. Burials occurred up to the 1940s (Claffey 1983, 161).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.