Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Keekill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keekill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.42649, -9.09903
- SMR number
- GA056-072002-
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 sector of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA056-072002-). Irregular overgrown area (NNE-SSW 40m, WNW-ESE 27.5m) defined by a field wall, which may overlie an earlier wall along S, W and N sides, and by the bank of the enclosure at E. Within the interior, numerous randomly placed set stones, including a number of rectangular plots, indicate graves.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.