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Children's burial ground

Ballintober West, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Ballintober West, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballintober West
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Caherbristy Grave Yd.
Latest-edition OS map
Caherbristy Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)
Coordinates
53.26114, -8.45248
SMR number
GA098-020001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the interior of a rath (GA098-020----). This children's burial ground is defined by a very poorly preserved L-shaped unenclosed area within which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. A circular depression in the centre of the rath is probably the result of quarrying and it has encroached upon the burial ground at E. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 488)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 28 August 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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