Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Eskerboy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskerboy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.21026, -8.31085
- SMR number
- GA107-069002-
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
Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA107-69001-). This children's burial ground is defined by a poorly preserved rectangular platform (L 12m; Wth 5.4m) upon which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. A grass-covered stony mound at its N end is probably the result of field clearance.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.