Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killeenaran, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenaran
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Killeen Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Grave Yd. (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.19456, -8.92977
- SMR number
- GA103-135----
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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
In flat pastureland overlooking Brandy Harbour and the Athlantic sea to the WNW. McCaffrey (1952, 197, no. 35) records that local people claimed that they found 'human remains' while building houses in the vicinity of a church (GA103-135001-). The 'Killeen' element of the name suggests that it may have been a children's burial ground. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 February 2020
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.