Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrowmore (Kilconickny ED ), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (Kilconickny ED )
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.22002, -8.63717
- SMR number
- GA105-055001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Within a rath (GA105-055----). A rectangular area (L 9.5m; Wth 6m) is defined by a number of set stones. Within it a number of upright and recumbent slabs mark the burials. (McCaffrey 1952, 255, no. 2)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 31 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.