Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gorteenanillaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenanillaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.16073, -8.63626
- SMR number
- GA115-022001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Within the interior and on the bank of the surviving S portion of a rath (GA115-022----). The children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed irregular area within which a number of set stones indicate graves. A souterrain (GA115-022002-) lies immediately to the N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.