Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Rafarn (kilmeen Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rafarn (kilmeen Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.18947, -8.47537
- SMR number
- GA106-145----
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
Some 220m to the SE of a rath (GA106-144----). Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a small roughly rectangular unenclosed area (c. 8m N-S; c. 7m E-W). Apart from a low circular mound (diam. 3m) no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.