Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Na Mine, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Mine
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22699, -9.47258
- SMR number
- GA091-018----
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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
Close to seashore at Cora an Chaisleáin. When inspected in February 1984, an unenclosed roughly L-shaped area (N-S 26m, E-W 20m), which was being transgressed by the storm beach, was visible. Numerous small set granite boulders marking burials were evident in the interior (SMR file). On a revisit in January 2018, following winter storms, the limits of the site were more difficult to define as a result of storm material, consisting of boulders, being dumped on it. However, a number of fairly recent stone-lined family plots were visible. An inscribed graveslab, dated 1860, to the memory of two sisters aged three years and one month, respectively, that was exposed following storms in late 2013/early 2014 was still visible on the foreshore (Bunbury 2014). (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).
The following images have been uploaded:
GA091-018----_01.jpg - View of W part of burial ground
GA091-018----_02.jpg - Viiew of burial plot
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 31 July 2018
References
Robinson, T. 1985 Mapping South Connemara, parts 1-29, Cashal, Carna, Cill Chiarain. Roundstone.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Bunbury, T. 2014 An ancient Connemara headstone exposed by the storms. The Irish Times 20 January 2014.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.