Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Carrowgarriff North,lisheeneenaun East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgarriff North,lisheeneenaun East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15604, -8.88219
- SMR number
- GA113-079001-
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
The rath (GA113-079----) is named 'Lisheeneenaun' on the OS 6-inch maps. The 'Lisheen' element of the name suggests that a children's burial ground may be associated with it. However, no visible surface trace of such was noted on the site inspection.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.