Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lurgan (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgan (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42744, -8.40232
- SMR number
- GA060-174001-
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
Immediately outside S sector of a ringfort (GA060-174----). It consists of a small triangular area (NNW-SSE 17m, WSW-ENE 6m) defined along NW side by a low bank and elsewhere by a scarp up to 1.8m in height. A number of small undressed grave-markers are visible in the interior, particularly in N sector where they are aligned in rows indicating graves oriented NE-SW. According to local tradition, the last burial took place c. 1940.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.