Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killeen (ballintemple Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (ballintemple Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.31513, -8.97705
- SMR number
- GA082-049----
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
To E of a laneway c. 270m NNE of Killeen Castlfc (GA082-050----). Described in OS Letters as 'a burying place now called Lisín' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 320), it consists of a subrectangular area (L c. 30m, Wth c. 28m) delimited by a stone wall. Most of the headstones mark late 19th-C adult burials, but the name suggests the presence of child burials also.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.