Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonmain, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmain
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard for Children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.24446, -8.43462
- SMR number
- GA098-079----
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
Immediately to the S of a rath (GA098-079001-). This children's burial ground consists of a subrectangular unenclosed area (L 11.8m; Wth 7.4m) within which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned ESE-WNW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.