Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Aghafadda, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghafadda
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghtonora (Childrens Burial Gd.)
- Coordinates
- 53.37286, -8.63967
- SMR number
- GA072-001----
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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 gently undulating grassland on SE boundary of td. This CBG consists of a small triangular platform (NE-SW; L 21m, Wth 14m, H 1.1m) which is bounded by a hay shed on NE side. Plain upright grave-markers, aligned N-S, are visible. According to local tradition, children were buried here up to 40 years ago. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 261)
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
- Gate lodgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.