Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Atticoffey West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Atticoffey West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Infants Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.26523, -8.24297
- SMR number
- GA099-010----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 40m SE of a ringfort (GA099-009----). A CBG, in fair condition, consisting of an unenclosed irregular area (N-S c. 15m, E-W 4m) sloping down to E, and within which a number of small set stones, haphazardly placed, indicated graves.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.