Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Coolbeg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbeg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.26575, -8.22119
- SMR number
- GA100-067001-
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
Within the E half of a rath (GA100-067----). This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed rectangular area (10m E-W; 5.5m N-S) within which a number of set stones indicate graves. According to local information, the last burial took place c. 1900.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.