Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carra (Leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carra (Leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carra Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carra Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.21017, -8.43892
- SMR number
- GA106-036----
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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
In low-lying grassland adjacent to a road. This poorly preserved children's burial ground (L 23m; Wth 5.1m)is roughly triangular in plan. It is delimited by modern field walls. Within the interior a number of randomly scattered stones indicate graves; only two examples remain in situ.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.