Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Canower,rosroe (ballindoon Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canower,rosroe (ballindoon Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40457, -9.85589
- SMR number
- GA050-005----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
By the seashore at head of Cuan na Beírtri Buí. It consists of a small hummock divided by the mearing wall of the townlands. Some small boulders are visible amongst the furze on the Rosroe side and there are traces of a curving fosse on Canower side where land has been cleared (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Settlement cluster1 mi
- Building2 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.