Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Island Eddy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Island Eddy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19390, -8.97465
- SMR number
- GA102-045----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A single headstone marks the location of a children’s burial ground known as the ‘reiligín’ (a little burial ground). According to local information ‘There was a graveyard on the island, . . . There is one headstone on it to a child, and it was suppoed to be some child who took ill on a passing boat and they pulled inot the island and she died. The graveyard was mostly for burying children.’ (Gosling et al. 2010, 142). The inscription on the headstone reads: JHS / Erected in Memory of / Eliza Murphy Who died / April the 8th AD 1827 / aged 17 Months. / P: Whyte Sculptur (ibid., 140).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 24 June 2013
References
Gosling, P., Springer, S., Cannon, M., and Murphy, J. 2010 The grave of Eliza Murphy on Island Eddy, Co. Galway: rubbing, description, poem, story. Journal of the Galway archaeological and historical society 62, 138-43.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Tide mill - unclassified1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.