Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Graveshill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graveshill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.24039, -8.22537
- SMR number
- GA100-100----
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
On a hummock in undulating pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed rectangular area (18m N-S; 15m E-W) within which numerous small set stones mark graves. Just NW of centre is an inscribed slab dated 1796. Quarrying has encroached upon it at SE and W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.