Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carnaun (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnaun (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.33068, -8.77833
- SMR number
- GA084-041001-
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
Within the NE quadrant of a cashel (GA084-041001-) and overlying the NE corner of a house site (GA084-041002-). A rectangular area (25.2m N-S; 22.8m E-W), delimited by a low grassed-over stone wall at S, is densely packed with set stones indicating graves aligned E-W. Four slab-lined graves (L c. 1.5m), marked by both head- and foot-stones, are visible within it, three towards the centre and one in the N sector. (Cody 1989, 238-9, no. 68)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 January 2017
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.