Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Corrandrum, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrandrum
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.40978, -8.91221
- SMR number
- GA057-085003-
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
Immediately S of a church (GA057-085001-). A roughly L-shaped area (E-W 18m, N-S 17.3m) delimited by the church to N and a house site (GA057-085002-) to E; elsewhere no enclosing element is visible. Generally orderly N-S running lines of grave-markers oriented E-W are visible. Some dressed stone fragments from the church were also used. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 224)
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.