Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Skecoor, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skecoor
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilmurry Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilmurry Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.22251, -8.23200
- SMR number
- GA099-173----
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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 gentle rise in flat reclaimed farmland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed D-shaped area (22m N-S; 13.2m E-W) within which a number of set stones mark graves aligned E-W. A mound of field-clearance rubble surrounds the monument from W to N and a silage pit has encroached upon it at NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.