Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Derryhoyle More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryhoyle More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21994, -8.68796
- SMR number
- GA104-132001-
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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 interior of a cashel (GA104-132----) that, according to the landowner, is regarded as a children's burial ground. No grave-markers are visible. Some boulders in the interior appear to be from the cashel wall.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.