Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballydavid South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydavid South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.31833, -8.73703
- SMR number
- GA084-006002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular children's burial ground (c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W) immediately to the E of the E gable of a church (GA084-006002-). A field boundary marks its E limits. The burials are marked by small set stones which appear to indicate that they were arranged in parallel rows running N-S, however, a number of the stones have been uprooted and are lying loose on the ground (Cody 1989, 310-11, no. 143). A large sycamore tree is growing in the centre of the site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 August 2019
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.