Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilmacshane (Turbett), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacshane (Turbett)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Fort (Burial Ground)
- Coordinates
- 53.22243, -8.03380
- SMR number
- GA101-020001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Within the W half of a possible rath (GA101-020----). Very poorly preserved unenclosed oval area (13m N-S; 9m E-W) within which a number of small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. The rath is named 'Killeen Fort' on the 1838 edition and 1945-6 revision of the OS 6-inch maps, suggesting that this is most likely a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.