Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Dangan Lower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan Lower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29430, -9.08784
- SMR number
- GA082-039----
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
In undulating farmland to N of Galway-Oughterard road and c. 50m E of the td. boundary. A roughly subrectangular platform (NW-SE c. 20m, H c. 2m), enclosed by a modern collapsed drystone wall. Many small granite uprights are visible in the interior, indicating graves oriented E-W (info. GBCAS Files). Not visited.
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
- Dovecoteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.