Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cloonoo West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonoo West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.20036, -8.61992
- SMR number
- GA105-065----
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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
On a hummock which has been quarried away at NE. This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed rectangular area (4m N-S; 3m E-W) within which ten unworked set stones mark graves.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.