Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Windfield Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Windfield Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Curraghaun Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.44035, -8.62824
- SMR number
- GA059-066001-
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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
Within a field system (GA059-066002-). This CBG consists of an irregularly shaped ill-defined unenclosed area (N-S 16m, E-W 12m), somewhat obscured by trees and bushes. Within the interior are many small set stones and two large upright grave-markers. The Jameson family burial plot lies to E. (Claffey 1983, 164).
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.