Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Doire An Fhéich, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire An Fhéich
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28931, -9.55845
- SMR number
- GA078-009----
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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 N side of coast road, immediately E of Droichead an Chroisín which stands on W boundary of the td. A small unenclosed plot within which many small set stones are visible (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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassified2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.