Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Moyower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18737, -8.11065
- SMR number
- GA108-204002-
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
According to local information, the mound (GA108-204001-) was reused as a place to bury unbaptized children. No grave-markers are visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.