Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lecarrow (Pallas ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrow (Pallas ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Billew Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Billew Burying Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.15566, -8.34918
- SMR number
- GA117-064003-
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (GA117-064002-). Named 'Billew Burial Ground on the OS 6-inch maps, this very poorly preserved children’s burial ground is defined by an unenclosed roughly rectangular area (L 15m, W 10m). It contains numerous set stones indicating graves aligned E-W. A holy tree (GA117-064001-) was located to its E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 October 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.