Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Inis Bearachain, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Bearachain
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28097, -9.71468
- SMR number
- GA077-032----
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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 an overgrown hollow, known as An Gleann Thuaidh, in N part of the island, and c. 75m from shore. A small circular area with traces of an enclosing wall which has a gap at SE. Many small boulders are visible in the interior as well as a pine tree. Said to have been used for the burial of children and possibly Famine victims (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. (Robinson 1985, 46)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well2 mi
- Ritual site - holy well2 mi
- Ritual site - holy well2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.