Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cahercrea East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercrea East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.17398, -8.59837
- SMR number
- GA105-035----
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
In low-lying marshy land. This children's burial ground is defined by a semicircular area (17m E-W) which is delimited by a field wall at N. About twenty set stones, some grass covered, are visible in the W sector. According to local information it was in use up until the early 1930s. A rath (GA105-034----) lies c. 225m to the NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.