Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyterrim, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyterrim
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.25628, -8.30331
- SMR number
- GA099-037----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hill in otherwise level farmland. A subrectangular CBG (E-W 15.4m, NNE-SSW 12m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone at N and by a field boundary, running E-W, at S; no enclosing element is visible at E or W. The interior slopes from NE to SW and irregularly shaped grave-markers are visible. A pile of stones occupies NE corner of the interior.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.