Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cappataggle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappataggle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.27955, -8.40461
- SMR number
- GA098-046----
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
On a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved irregularly shaped CBG (E-W 12m, N-S 3m) defined by a scarp at E, and at N and S by the natural slope; from SW through W to NW quarrying has disturbed the monument. The majority of the grave-markers consist of small moss-covered limestone blocks aligned N-S
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.