Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Eastwell, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eastwell
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.26998, -8.42730
- SMR number
- GA098-099001-
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
Within a ringfort (GA098-099----). An unenclosed rectangular CBG (N-S 23.7m, E-W 8.6m), in fair condition, within which a number of moss-covered set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. Known locally as a CBG.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.