Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballybrit, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrit
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.29606, -8.99187
- SMR number
- GA082-011002-
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
Within a ringfort (GA082-011----). The interior has been in use as a graveyard since time of 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. Though still in use for general burial in 1970 (Topgr. Files, UCG), the name lisheen suggests that this was once restricted to children.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.