Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonascarberry South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonascarberry South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.50204, -8.37199
- SMR number
- GA046-037----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. The exact location of this CBG is unclear and is not known locally. It may have been within a deep rectangular hollow (N-S 40m, E-W 25m) which is enclosed at NW, N and NE by a low earthen bank and within which a number of haphazardly placed limestone boulders and pebbles (possible grave-markers) are visible. Or it may be a small triangular enclosure (E-W 10m), immediately to SW of the former, which is defined on N and E sides by a similar bank and at SW by the hedge along the roadway. It also contains limestone pebbles. An 'avenue' (Wth 12m) defined by two low earthen banks, which is not indicated on OS 6-inch maps, runs in a N direction from the hollow into the next field; its relationship with the hollow or enclosure in unclear.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.