Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Muingbaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muingbaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.15314, -8.22388
- SMR number
- GA118-067----
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
On a hummock in level pastureland. Known locally as ‘the lios’, this irregular unenclosed children's burial ground has been encroached upon by quarrying at S. According to local information, the last burial took place c. 1900. Sometime between the mid-1930s and mid-1940s hawthorn trees growing on it were removed but the graves were not disturbed. However, no visible surface traces of any grave-markers now survive.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.