Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Garrafine, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrafine
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Shanclogh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Shanclogh Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.41217, -8.46285
- SMR number
- GA060-084002-
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
In grassland, on W-facing slope, c. 100m W of the td. boundary and adjacent to a castle (GA060-084001-). This CBG consists of an unenclosed slightly raised rectangular area (N-S 11m, E-W 10m); a modern field wall forms N boundary. Within the interior are numerous small set stones indicating graves oriented E-W; a small cross-inscribed slab, with the initials PK, stands in SE quadrant.(O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 248)
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.