Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killola, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killola
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.40229, -9.26890
- SMR number
- GA054-039002-
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
In E part of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA054-039001-). Indicated on 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1899) as an unenclosed roughly D-shaped area (L/Wth c. 20m). What survives is a completely overgrown low platform within which numerous small upright stones are visible, including a lintelled grave at W.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.