Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrowmore (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (Loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.25252, -8.52039
- SMR number
- GA098-065001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Within the interior of a rath (GA098-065----). Numerous set stones indicating graves aligned NE-SW are visible in an unenclosed trapezoidal area (17m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW). A souterrain (GA098-065002-) lies c. 5m to the NW. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 499)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2017
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
- Souterrainunder 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.