Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Garracloon South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garracloon South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.24096, -8.71364
- SMR number
- GA096-098001-
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 SW quadrant of a cashel (GA096-098----). Due to dense overgrowth, all that is visible is one small set stone. (McCaffrey 1952, 158, no. 61)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2017
References
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.