Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballynamanagh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamanagh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.23111, -8.91290
- SMR number
- GA095-005001-
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 the E half of a cashel (GA095-005----). This children's burial ground consists of a roughly square area (21m N-S; 21m E-W) delimited by a line of boulders. Within it lie numerous small set stones indicating graves. Two larger slabs are visible at W; immediately to SE is a plain stone cross. (Holt 1912, 236; McCaffrey 1952, 126, no. 27)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1910 An abridged transcript of the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to parishes in, or partly in, the Barony of Dunkellin Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 6, 123-69.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.