Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Castletaylor South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletaylor South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17449, -8.80389
- SMR number
- GA104-282----
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
According to local information, the interior of the cashel (GA104-281----) may have been used as a children's burial ground (SMR file). No visible surface trace of one exists.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.