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Children's burial ground

Emlaghmore (Ballindoon Par.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Emlaghmore (Ballindoon Par.), County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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