Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Knockash, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockash
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.15985, -8.53449
- SMR number
- GA115-037----
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
In very marshy land. This children's burial ground (L 9m; Wth 5m) consists of a raised rectangular area which is enclosed by a stone wall. Within the interior numerous small headstones are visible breaking through the sod cover. A holy well (GA115-04----) lies c. 270m to the S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.