Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Treananearla, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treananearla
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.14186, -8.28318
- SMR number
- GA117-092002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying grassland. This children's burial ground consists of a wedge-shape area (L 20m; Wth 8.5m) defined by a degraded scarp with traces of stone-facing at S. Mainly recumbent stones mark graves running in rows from NW to SE. According to local information the last burial took place c. 1903. A bullaun stone (GA117-092001-) is visible in the NW half.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.