Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Blean, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blean
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.29658, -8.71472
- SMR number
- GA084-026----
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
On the E face of a ridge in undulating pastureland. This subrectangular children's burial ground (8.9m NW-SE; 5.4m NE-SW) is defined by a low drystone wall. The only headstone visible is at W. Three yew trees are growing in the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.