Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cuddoo West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuddoo West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lishoenbaun
- Coordinates
- 53.38455, -8.62695
- SMR number
- GA072-030----
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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 undulating grassland. This CBG is indicated on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a small unenclosed circular area (D c. 8m). No visible surface trace survives. According to local tradition, it was an area 'nine yards square' (8.2m) with stones set around the edge and the interior was overgrown; it was known as a children's burial place, though no one remembered when it was last used.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.