Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gloves Middle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gloves Middle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisvride Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisvride Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.29880, -8.67383
- SMR number
- GA084-076001-
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 W sector of a rath (GA084-076----). This children's burial ground is defined by a densely overgrown roughly square area (c. 2m N-S; c. 2m E-W) within which a number of small set stones indicate graves. (Cody 1989, 200-2, no. 50)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2018
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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.