Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killescragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killescragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.27782, -8.55551
- SMR number
- GA097-110002-
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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 a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (GA097-110001-). Indicated on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small unenclosed subrectangular area in the SE quadrant of the enclosure. No visible surface trace of the site survives here. However, a raised rectangular area (c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W) to the W of this location may mark its site. No grave-markers are visible. According to the landowner the last burial took place around 1900.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.