Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Tooreen (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.31211, -8.49380
- SMR number
- GA086-229----
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
In a prominent location in grassland. A very poorly preserved rectangular area (E-W 12.5m, N-S 11.2m) defined by a scarp at S; elsewhere no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives. Several overgrown set stones are visible, aligned in N-S rows, indicating graves oriented E-W. A low stony mound (L 2.8m, Wth 1.7m) lies at E and is probably the result of field clearacne.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.