Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Castletown (Longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (Longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.18433, -8.38823
- SMR number
- GA106-048----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in undulating pastureland. This subrectangular burial ground (c. 28m WNW-ESE; c. 16m N-S) is defined on all sides by a low bank. According to local information, it was used for the burial children. Within the interior a number of set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. (O'Flanagan 1927, II, 81)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.