Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Emlaghmore (ballindoon Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Emlaghmore (ballindoon Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41356, -10.02107
- SMR number
- GA049-031----
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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 low-lying rough pastureland, immediately to the E of a by-road and close to the base of a well-defined drumlin ridge. This small unenclosed burial ground (6m N-S; 5m E-W) is roughly subrectangular in plan. Two graves (L 3m; Wth 0.6m), lying side by side, are visible. Both are aligned E-W and are edged with small stones; a small grave-marker marks their W ends. According to local information, this may be a famine era burial ground and it may also have been used as a children's burial ground. A small ill-defined raised area to the N of the graves marks the children’s graves. This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Mr Michael Gibbons.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Mr Michael Gibbons
Date of upload: 1 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burial1 mi
- Midden1 mi
- Midden2 mi
- Children's burial ground2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.