Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballygarraun (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarraun (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.18505, -8.66583
- SMR number
- GA105-020----
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 a possible barrow (GA105-216----). This children's burial ground consists of an oval-shaped slightly hollowed area (13.1m E-W; 4.6m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone. Within the interior are a number of randomly placed set stones indicating graves. (McCaffrey 1952, 253, no. 21)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 August 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Pumpunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.