Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Brackloon (Athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (Athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.28541, -8.58333
- SMR number
- GA085-011001-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Within the NW quadrant of a rath (GA085-011----). This roughly D-shaped area (20.5m N-S; 9m E-W) is delimited by the bank of the rath at W and by the line of a possible souterrain (GA085-011002-) at E. Within the interior numerous small set limestone slabs indicate burials aligned E-W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.