Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
An Chloich Mhór Theas, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Chloich Mhór Theas
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22985, -9.53135
- SMR number
- GA091-027----
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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
Just above the seashore overlooking Trawatober to the S. St Columbkille’s Burial Ground (GA091-001002-) lies on the other side of a boithrín, immediately to the W. In the corner of a field, a rectangular area (32m NNE-SSW; 11m ESE-WNW) is defined by a drystone field wall on the W and S sides, by three small, widely spaced, earthfast rocks on the E side and by two similar earthfast rocks on the N side. Although no burial markers are visible, the site is regarded locally as a Children’s Burial Ground.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 21 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.