Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cahergal (headford Ed.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahergal (headford Ed.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Milla or Lisheen
- Coordinates
- 53.45181, -9.11370
- SMR number
- GA055-023001-
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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
Associated with an enclosure (GA055-023----). On 1st ed, of OS 6-inch map, the words 'Milla or Lisheen' appear alongside a circular enclosure suggesting the presence of a CBG. Only faint traces of the enclosure survive and no visible surface trace of the CBG.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Altarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.