Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Drumatober, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumatober
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.18874, -8.36864
- SMR number
- GA107-059----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland adjacent to a road. This poorly preserved and much-overgrown wedge-shaped children's burial ground (L 25m; Wth 14.5m) is defined by tentative traces of a bank along the S side. Within it numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.