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Children's burial ground

Tír An Fhia, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Tír An Fhia, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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