Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killeen East,Pollnahincha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen East,Pollnahincha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.15212, -8.29684
- SMR number
- GA117-049001-
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 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Within the SE quadrant of a possible henge (GA117-049----). This children's burial ground is defined by a heavily overgrown unenclosed oval area (17m N-S) within which numerous randomly placed set stones indicate graves. No alignments were discernible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.