Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilcloggaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcloggaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheennabasty
- Coordinates
- 53.36650, -9.13698
- SMR number
- GA068-022----
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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 an area of scrubland c. 700m E of Gortaghokera house cluster. This CBG, correctly Lisín na bPáistí, is also labelled 'Disused' on 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933). It consists of a subcircular area (D c. 25m) defined by a modern drystone wall. No headstones were visible but the interior is heavily overgrown.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.