Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrownea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.36349, -8.49357
- SMR number
- GA073-043----
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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
On a slight rise in undulating farmland, on S boundary of td., immediately to N of road. A D-shaped raised area (E-W 27m, N-S 16m, H 1m) within E half of which numerous small limestone grave-markers are visible, aligned N-S. To NW of centre lies a pile of stones (H 1.5m), and to E a large inscribed stone slab dedicated to Mr Fitzsimmons who 'enclosed this small burial place.' No grave-markers are visible in W half of the monument.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.