Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Eochaill (bar. árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (bar. árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.13227, -9.68083
- SMR number
- GA111-003001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a small rocky knoll overlooking N shore of Inis Mór. Known locally as An Atharla (Robinson 1980), it consists of a rectangular area (36m by 8m) delimited by modern field walls except on NW where the grassy foundations of an old wall are visible. Apart from a number of small set stones, at E end, there are also six others with crosses (see GA111-003003- to GA111-003007- and GA111-003009-) all concentrated near a broken cross-inscribed pillar (see GA111-003002-).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 3 May 2016
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.