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Children's burial ground

Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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