Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lissard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.34595, -8.38958
- SMR number
- GA073-127----
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 flat farmland, c. 180m S of ringfort (GA073-126----). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a small circular enclosure (D c. 10m). All that survives is a poorly preserved unenclosed square are (L/Wth 10m) occupied by several alignments of small set limestone boulders indicating graves oriented N-S. A hawthorn tree is growing in the W half.
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).
The following images have been uploaded:
GA073-127----_01.jpg
GA073-127----_02.jpg
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 31 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.