Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Craughwell (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craughwell (Dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.22943, -8.73751
- SMR number
- GA096-069----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland to the W of the Athenry-Limerick railway line. This partially overgrown subrectangular children's burial ground (L 18.15m; Wth 15m) is defined by a drystone field wall along the S, W and N sides and by the railway boundary wall on the E side. Numerous recumbent grave-markers are visible but in the SW sector an number of small upright set examples survive.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.