Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Moorfield Or Gortnamona, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorfield Or Gortnamona
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18625, -8.19473
- SMR number
- GA108-201001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a rath (GA108-201----). According to local information, there is a 'burial ground' in the centre of the interior the rath. No visible surface trace of it is visible. An L-shaped stony mound (L 5m; Wth 1.7m) in the N sector could be associated with it and may be the last vestiges an enclosing element around it. Possibly a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.