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Children's burial ground

Castletaylor North, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Castletaylor North, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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