Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Moyode Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyode Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.25502, -8.69546
- SMR number
- GA096-142----
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
On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland, c. 15m to the W of the Dooyertha River. This subrectangular children's burial ground (L 16.4m; Wth 12.3m) is defined by a drystone wall on its NW side but is otherwise unenclosed. Within it an irregular spread of small upright headstones mark graves.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.