Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killeenadeema West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenadeema West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15681, -8.57369
- SMR number
- GA115-033----
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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 an E-facing slope in grassland adjacent to a stream. According to local information, this is a children's burial ground. It is rectangular in plan (int. dims. 14.7m E-W; 11m N-S) and is defined by a low wide earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m), which is heavily overgrown with trees and bushes, and an external fosse (Wth c. 1.5m; D 0.3m). No grave-markers are visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.