Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Raherneen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raherneen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.25594, -8.64905
- SMR number
- GA097-141----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the W half of a cashel (GA097-141001-). This children's burial ground is defined by an irregular unenclosed area (30m N-S; 15m E-W) within which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. One inscribed 18th-C grave-marker is dedicated to the O'Daly's of nearby Dunsandle. (McCaffrey 1952, 170, no. 13)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.