Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Camas Uachtair, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camas Uachtair
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37372, -9.58012
- SMR number
- GA065-003----
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
Close to seashore at N foot of Cnoc Chamais on inner reaches of Cuan Chamais. An ill-defined unenclosed area, now totally overgrown with dense scrub, but held in local tradition to be a CBG (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Watchtowerunder 1 mi
- Chapel1 mi
- Field boundary1 mi
- Burial ground2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.