Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyboggan (Graigabbey ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyboggan (Graigabbey ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31784, -8.67781
- SMR number
- GA084-139----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pastureland. During the course of the construction of a house in the late 1970s, a number children's bones and skulls were uncovered and reburied some 26m to the E of the house. The landowner believed that a burial ground probably occupied most of the plot on which the house stands, although no grave-markers were to be seen anywhere. A souterrain (GA084-140----) lies c. 16m to the SW.
The following image has been uploaded: GA084-139----_01.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.