Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Mountain West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountain West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.27880, -8.86440
- SMR number
- GA095-087001-
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 N half of the interior of a ring-barrow (GA095-087----). McCaffrey (1952, 36-7) recorded a 'number of small stones serving as markers for modern graves' or 'children's burials'. Several upright limestone boulders are visible but no particular alignment is discernible. The ring-barrow was probably reused as a children's burial ground. (Killanin and Duignan 1969, 395)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.