Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Castletaylor North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletaylor North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.18003, -8.79940
- SMR number
- GA104-103001-
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
Within the S sector of a cashel (GA104-103----). This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed irregular area in which set stones and flat grave-markers are haphazardly arranged. (McCaffrey 1952, 224, no. 128; O'Doherty 1985, 6)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
O'Doherty, T. 1985 Taylors and Shave - Taylors of Castletaylor. Muintir Amhaín - Muintir Ardrahan.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.