Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Menlough Eighter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Menlough Eighter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.42629, -8.57213
- SMR number
- GA059-051----
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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 a W-facing slope, in grassland, c. 500m N of the village of Menlough and c. 80m E of a road which forms the td. boundary. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1927) as a small unenclosed circular area (D c. 15m). All that is visible is a slight rise in ground level. No grave-markers are evident. According to local information, the CBG has not been used in the last 85 years.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.