Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lackalea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackalea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cappanacully Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cappanacully Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.22819, -8.56377
- SMR number
- GA097-130----
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 rise in rolling pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed oval area (L 11m; Wth 9.3m) within which a number of randomly placed set stones mark graves. A thorn bush is growing in it and a number of field-clearance boulders are scattered within it. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 474)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 September 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.