Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Castlegar (galway By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegar (galway By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castlegar Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.29797, -9.01371
- SMR number
- GA082-022----
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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 flat farmland 100m NW of Galway-Tuam Road. Noted by OS Letters as 'Lisheennagarlagh, Lisin Na n-garlach, the lisheen of the children, a burying place' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 397). The place is now a modern rectangular graveyard (L c. 45m, Wth c. 25m) and no visible surface trace of the CBG survives.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.