Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilcurrivard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcurrivard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.42873, -8.92736
- SMR number
- GA057-120001-
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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 SE quadrant of a ringfort (GA057-120----). An irregularly shaped area (NE-SW 18m, NNW-SSE 12.5m) enclosed by the bank of the enclosure from NE to SSW and by a collapsed grass-covered stone wall from NW to NE. Within the interior and on the bank, set stones of various shapes and sizes, some grass-covered, indicate graves, most of which are oriented ENE-WSW.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.