Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Slievefin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievefin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.39149, -8.92971
- SMR number
- GA070-099001-
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
Within a ringfort (GA070-099----). Unenclosed rectangular area (NNW-SSE 7m, NE-SW 4m) within which a number of graves are marked by small set stones. Some 3m to S lie four small circular enclosures (D c. 1.9m) delimited by small set stones; these features may also represent graves.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.