Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilcommadan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcommadan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.28671, -8.31542
- SMR number
- GA087-126003-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Immediately S of a church (GA087-126002-). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as a CBG. According to local tradition, a burial took place here c. 150 years ago. There is also a tradition that Lieut.-General St Ruth was initially buried here (see GA087-125----) before being reinterred at the Carmelite priory in Loughrea. No visible surface trace survives.(O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 225)
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.