Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lisheenaclara, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisheenaclara
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.14742, -8.53879
- SMR number
- GA115-047----
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
Within the S sector of the interior of a cashel (GA115-052----). This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed rectangular area (16m x 3m) within which a number of small plain set but haphazardly arranged headstones are visible running on a N-S alignment.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 26 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.