Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrownamaddra, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownamaddra
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13672, -8.97978
- SMR number
- GA112-054001-
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
In pastureland immediately to the E of a N-S running road. According to local information a children's burial ground was located in this reclaimed field. Some loose stones are visible but there is no evidence of any set stones. A cross-inscribed slab (GA112-054002-) is built into the field wall at W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.