Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ben Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ben Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.26944, -8.51914
- SMR number
- GA098-037001-
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 E sector of a rath (GA098-037----). Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly subrectangular area (c. 12m NW-SE; c. 9m NE-SW) and named 'Children's Burial Gd. (Disused)'. The interior of the rath has been heavily quarried and the burial ground is defined by a roughly L-shaped area within which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.