Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Somerset, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Somerset
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25272, -8.22358
- SMR number
- GA100-152001-
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 a rath (GA100-152----). According to local information, a children's burial ground is associated with this monument. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.