Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Tooreen West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16825, -8.91505
- SMR number
- GA103-187002-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the N side of a by-road in pastureland. According to local information, there is a children's burial ground in the N end of the field in which the cross (GA103-187001-) is located (information from Mr. G. Darcy). O'Connell and Korff (1987, 9) noted that human bones were uncovered during deep ploughing of 'the field below the cross' and 'that when the road was widened more bones were uncovered in the field opposite.' A graveslab (GA103-185----), c. 140m to the NE is said to have originally stood in the field across the road opposite the cross.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 September 2019
References
O'Connell, J. and Korff, A. 1987 South Galway Heritage: Tooreen Cross, The Connacht Tribune, 3 April, 9.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.