Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Boleybeg,drummin (mountain Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boleybeg,drummin (mountain Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killiath Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killiath Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.11573, -8.53887
- SMR number
- GA115-008----
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 a townland boundary on a N-facing slope overlooking a stream. This L-shaped children's burial ground (L 9m; Wth 7m) is defined by field walls at E and S and by a scarp at W and N. Within the interior numerous set stones mark graves.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.