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Children's burial ground

Bullaunagh (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Bullaunagh, 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
Bullaunagh (Loughrea By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toberderagon Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Toberderagon Childrens Burial Ground
Coordinates
53.13700, -8.72154
SMR number
GA114-030----

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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 NW-facing slope in pastureland. An subrectangular area (12.9m NE-SW; 11.7m NW-SE) is defined by low bank at NE and elsewhere by trees. Within the interior numerous grassed-over set stones indicate graves.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 29 August 2019

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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