Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballintober West, County Galway, Ireland
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-
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.