Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Cappagh Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10868, -8.94852
- SMR number
- GA122-039----
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
On an E-facing slope in gently undulating pastureland. This burial ground consists of an unenclosed pear-shaped area (18.8m ESE-WNW; 12.3m NNE-SSW) within which a number of set stones are aligned NNE-SSW, indicating graves aligned WNW-ESE. It may be a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.