Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ros An Mhíl,tóin An Chnoic, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ros An Mhíl,tóin An Chnoic
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Nto indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25908, -9.55268
- SMR number
- GA090-017001-
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 E-facing hillslope close to seashore, and immediately N of the td. boundary wall. Known locally as Garraí na bPáistí (Robinson 1985, 46), it consists of a few small set stones in W part of a field. Local tradition records that it was in use until 50 years ago, and that Famine victims were buried immediately S of the td. boundary wall (pers. comm. T. Robinson).
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: 09 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Boundary stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.