Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cahercrin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercrin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.26415, -8.76649
- SMR number
- GA096-029001-
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 interior of a rath (GA096-029----). Apart from a scatter of stones along the enclosing bank at SE, which may possibly be displaced grave-markers, no visible surface trace survives. (Redington 1916, 56; O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 461; McCaffrey 1952, 151, no. 23)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 January 2017
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Redington, M. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.