Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Garbally Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garbally Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.31416, -8.25648
- SMR number
- GA087-072----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland, immediately NW of the Ballinasloe-Aughrim road. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as a subrectangular unenclosed area (NNW-SSE c. 30m, ENE-WSW c. 20m). It consists of a slightly raised area delimited by a scarp, except from NW to NE where it has been destroyed by quarrying and the construction of farm buildings. Within the interior, some randomly placed limestone blocks, barely visible above ground level, may indicate grave-markers. According to local information, the area was tilled in the 1940s. A tower house (GA087-179----) lies c. 250m to SW and two ringforts (GA087-071----, GA087-071001-) c. 300m to N.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.