Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Limehill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Limehill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.16929, -8.45275
- SMR number
- GA106-112001-
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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
In low-lying pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed subrectangular area (c. 18m N-S; c. 14m E-W) within which numerous set stones, running in N-S rows, indicate graves aligned E-W. Within the NW sector of the interior a box-like grave plot (L 1.2m; Wth 0.5m) is defined by a number of set stones. St Brendan’s Well (GA106-112002-) lies c. 15m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.