Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carra (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carra (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killaghaun Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killaghaun Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.26602, -8.49546
- SMR number
- GA098-054----
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. This children's burial ground, rectangular in plan (L 19m; Wth 14.5m), is defined by a scarp. Within the interior numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.