Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Caltragh (Longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltragh (Longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.24376, -8.13280
- SMR number
- GA100-057----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a hillock in undulating pastureland immediately to the E of a stream. This children's burial ground is defined by a trapezoidal area (19.7m NW-SE; 11m NE-SW) which is enclosed by a poorly preserved bankof earth and stone. Within the interior numerous small set stones indicate graves aligned NE-SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Decoy pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.