Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lurgan (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgan (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.19290, -8.64328
- SMR number
- GA105-029008-
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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
Some 20m to the E of a church (GA105-028001-). This children's burial ground consists of a rectangular area (L 32m; Wth 20m) which is defined by an earthen bank at N and E, by a scarp at S and by the townland boundary wall at W. Within the interior numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. Two holy wells (GA105-029003- and GA105-029004-) lie c. 10m to the W. (McCaffrey 1952, 259, no. 19)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.