Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Béal An Daingin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Béal An Daingin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32199, -9.62147
- SMR number
- GA078-002----
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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 small hillock on seashore, to NW of the new graveyard. Known locally as Cnocán na Leanbh, it consists of an area of small set boulders delimited by a slight wall (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 wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 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.