Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cnoc Raithní, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cnoc Raithní
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34559, -9.27277
- SMR number
- GA067-033----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to local information a possible children's burial ground was located somewhere within the area of the four fields indicated at this location on the OS 6-inch map. There is no visible surface trace of any burial markers in these fields and the coordiantes for this record can only be considered as indicative of the area where the burial ground was reportedly located.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 28 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassified2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.