Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
An Léana Riabhach, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Léana Riabhach
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA093-028----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In very rough pastureland sloping to the S and immediately to the N of the rocky shoreline of Galway Bay. According to local folklore, a children's burial ground was located somewhere in a small field/paddock along the shore to the W of the Silver Strand (information from Mr Seamus Hickey 1/11/2017). No grave-markers are visible - they may have been covered over by blowing sands. Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 13 June 2019
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