Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killaclogher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaclogher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killaclogher Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.39364, -8.70447
- SMR number
- GA071-041001-
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
In E half of an enclosure (GA071-041----). It comprises an area (E-W 12m) of small undressed irregular stones aligned in rows, c. 0.8m apart, indicating graves oriented E-W.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.