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Children's burial ground

Lydacan (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Lydacan, 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
Lydacan (Kiltartan By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Childrens Burial Ground
Coordinates
53.12009, -8.83219
SMR number
GA113-163----

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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 gentle S-facing slope in rough pastureland, c. 40m to the NNW of a rath (GA113-163----). When initially visited by the Survey in October 1982, this children's burial ground consisted of a raised rectangular area (c. 30m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) which was defined by a low earthen bank. It contained a number of irregularly set plain stone slabs. In the SW quadrant larger slabs formed a neat square structure (L/Wth 1.5m; H 0.95m). On a revisit in June 1992 the site was totally obscured by impenetrable thorn and briar cover.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 3 September 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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