Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
An Chloich Mhór Thuaidh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Chloich Mhór Thuaidh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen (Childrens Burial Ground)
- Coordinates
- 53.26969, -9.49161
- SMR number
- GA091-005001-
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
Within an enclosure (GA091-005----). Named on 1st and 2nd (1899) eds of OS 6-inch maps as 'Lisheen'. No visible surface trace of it survives.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Watchtower2 mi
- Well2 mi
- Chapel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.