Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Knockdoebeg West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdoebeg West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38207, -8.90314
- SMR number
- GA070-105001-
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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
In the NE quadrant of a cashel (GA070-105----). According to local information, this is the site of a children's burial ground. The interior of the cashel is almost inaccessible due to dense briar and thorn growth but several earthfast boulders (average H 0.2m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.1m) were visible as well as loose field stones. This monument was brought to our attention by Dr C. Cunniffe.
The following image has been uploaded: GA070-105001-_01.jpg View of children's burial ground
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.