Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gortard (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortard (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23628, -8.87304
- SMR number
- GA095-170----
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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
On a narrow terrace on the E face of a steep hillock. A heavily overgrown unenclosed area (7.5m N-S; 5.5m E-W) contains about a half dozen small grave-like marker stones. According to local tradition, this is a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.