Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Tír An Fhia, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tír An Fhia
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26613, -9.66496
- SMR number
- GA090-027----
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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 shallow natural declivity, on a gentle W-facing slope overlooking Lough Illauntrasna c. 80m to the W. Known locally as a children's burial ground, this almost rectangular area (28m N-S; 15m E-W) is intermittantly enclosed along the E and W by outcropping granite rock. The interior is overgrown with fern and briar and is tussock covered. Some half-dozen small unworked earthfast blocks and flags (max. dims. H 0.4m; Wth 0.28m; T 0.2m), are visible and appear to act as simple grave-markers, while many more appear to be concealed in the tussocks. A small area of recent disturbance (c. 5m E-W; c. 4m N-S) is visible at the N edge of the site across which a modern access road runs to a new water-pumping station on the lakeshore.
The following image has been uploaded: GA090-027-----03.jpg View of grave-markers
Compiled by Gearóid Conroy and Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.