Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Doire Iorrais, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Iorrais
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38998, -9.67767
- SMR number
- GA065-012----
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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 N-facing hillslope, under alders, c. 50m S of a stream which forms the td. boundary. Known locally as An Chill Bheag or Reilig na bPáistí, it consists of a roughly rectangular area (L 17m, Wth 11.5m) bounded on S and W by modern field walls, on N by a scarp, but unenclosed elsewhere. Numerous small set stones are visible, indicating graves oriented E-W, with a particular concentration at SW. One small wooden cross was also present. (Robinson 1985, 46)
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
- Kiln2 mi
- Maltings2 mi
- Kiln - corn-drying2 mi
- Kiln - lime2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.