Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilmeen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmeen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20544, -8.49743
- SMR number
- GA106-103005-
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise, immediately outside the NE end of the church (GA106-103001-), and within the N area of a graveyard (GA106-103003-). A roughly rectangular area (5m E-W; 3m N-S) is marked by a scatter of overgrown rough rubble set stones. According to local information, the area marks the site of a children's burial ground. The stones are barely above ground level.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.