Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Graigue (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigue (Loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.21792, -8.56103
- SMR number
- GA105-107----
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
On the grounds of a golf course to the N of Loughrea town. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a rectangular
children's burial ground (c. 20m ENE-WSW; c. 10m N-S). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.