Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Parkaloughan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parkaloughan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.19327, -8.78584
- SMR number
- GA104-217001-
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 interior of a rath (GA1904-217----). This rectangular children's burial ground (20m N-S; 9.9m E-W) is defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall (H 0.2-0.3m; Wth 0.9-1m). Within it numerous small set stones are visible; no consistent alignment or pattern is evident. (McCaffrey 1952, 244, no. 99)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 July 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.