Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Esker (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Esker (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Esker Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Esker Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.20680, -8.00865
- SMR number
- GA109-009----
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 the NE corner of a field in level pastureland. Named 'Esker Grave Yard' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown as a small walled roughly rectangular graveyard. On the 1944 revision of the map it is named 'Esker Burial Ground' and depicted as being roughly triangular in shape and unenclosed. On inspection no enclosing element or grave-markers were visible. According to local information, this is a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Canal1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.