Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrowreagh (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreagh (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.27068, -8.58786
- SMR number
- GA097-072001-
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 NE quadrant of an enclosure (GA097-072----). Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS
6-inch map as an unenclosed rectangular area (c. 18m N-S; c. 10m E-W) and named 'Children's Burial Ground. No visible surface trace of any grave-markers survive.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.