Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Shanbally (killeely Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanbally (killeely Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.22986, -8.76841
- SMR number
- GA096-159001-
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 SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA096-159002-). This children's burial ground (17m E-W; 14m N-S) is to the N of a possible church (GA096-159004-). Numerous plain unworked rectangular limestone grave-markers are aligned in rows running N-S. One slab-lined grave (L 1.05m; Wth 0.25m) is also visible. A fragment of a cross (GA096-159003-) is also associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.