Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Rathgorgin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgorgin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.26578, -8.67594
- SMR number
- GA096-150----
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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 the crest of an esker ridge, c. 100m to the NE of Rathgorgin Castle (GA096-151----). This children's burial ground consists of a roughly oval unenclosed area (16.6m E-W; 10.9m N-S) within which numerous small upright limestone slabs are visible. The top mullion stone (GA096-150001-) of a trefoil-headed window, most likely from the tower house, marks one particular grave.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.