Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballinvoher North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvoher North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48404, -8.32597
- SMR number
- GA047-009----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
on a steep N-facing slope, immediately NE of a holy well (GA047-007----). An unenclosed almost square area (L/Wth 8m) within which are a number of limestone grave-markers. According to local information, children were buried here up to 50 years ago.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.