Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cahernagarry, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernagarry
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Laghteyne Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghteyne Childrens Burial Gd
- Coordinates
- 53.23992, -8.50957
- SMR number
- GA098-041----
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
At the E end of a much-quarried hummock in undulating grassland. This childrens' burial ground is defined by a roughly L-shaped unenclosed area (L 9m; Wth 4.3m) within which numerous set limestone blocks indicate graves aligned E-W. Quarrying has encroached upon it at NW. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 488)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.