Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
An Cheathrú Rua Theas, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cheathrú Rua Theas
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24758, -9.62856
- SMR number
- GA090-007----
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
On the seashore at Trá an Dóilín on E side of Cuan an Fhir Mhóir. Known locally as Trá na bPáistí, it has been obliterated by the modern carpark. There were other burials to E, also removed, which were marked by circles of stones. In use until c. 1960 (info T. Robinson). (Robinson 1985, 46)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.