Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyglass West (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass West (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13351, -8.83165
- SMR number
- GA113-015001-
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
Within N half of a rath (GA113-015----). An unenclosed irregular area within which a number of regularly placed set stones are visible. McCaffrey (1952, 263, no. 45) noted that the N half of the interior had been used as a graveyard.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 October 2016
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.