Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
An Tamhnach Mhór, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Tamhnach Mhór
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.42784, -8.88333
- SMR number
- GA057-147----
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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
On low-lying ground, c. 250m to W of the Clare River. A rectangular area (N-S 32m, E-W 26m) defined on all sides by a gentle scarp edge. Irregular undressed stones, arranged in a N-S linear fashion, now mainly grassed over, mark the burials. Field-clearance stones are dumped on NE corner of the monument.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.