Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Bohaboy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohaboy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockalaghta Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockalaghta Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.11219, -8.60842
- SMR number
- GA115-007----
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
On the crest of a locally prominent hill overlooking bogland and a small stream to the S. Marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular unenclosed area (c. 12m N-S). It consists of an irregularly shaped unenclosed area (L 7.6m; Wth 4.3m) within which small set stones, projecting through the heather, indicate graves aligned N-S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 August 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.