Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Earlspark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Earlspark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilnabasty
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilnabasty (Childrens Grave Yd.)
- Coordinates
- 53.16893, -8.54359
- SMR number
- GA105-083----
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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 undulating grassland adjacent to a spring well. This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed rectangular area (L 10.3m; Wth 9.7m) within which numerous haphazardly set stones mark graves.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.