Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrigeen East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheennagaurlagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheennagaurlagh Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.21815, -8.76468
- SMR number
- GA104-092001-
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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
Associated with a possible chapel (GA104-092003-). McCaffrey (1952, 222, no. 6) recorded this children's burial ground, which consisted of a number of graves (six to the S and five to the W of the church based on his site plan) marked by head- and foot-stones. The stones were ‘well fashioned' and were probably taken from the church. On the initial inspection in February 1983, a small roughly subcircular, but unenclosed, concentration of grave-markers was noted. The headstones were small (H 0.3m) and were aligned E-W. On re-inspection in June 1992, the site was completely overgrown with dense blackthorn and briar growth and was impenetrable. According local information gleaned by McCaffrey (ibid.), the last internment took place in the late 1930s.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.