Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilchreest, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilchreest
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18195, -8.65421
- SMR number
- GA105-119001-
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
Within the centre of an earthwork (GA105-119----). According to local information, there is a children's burial ground here but it has not been used within living memory (pers. comm. J. Higgins). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical residenceunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.