Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Roo (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roo (Kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.06986, -8.90216
- SMR number
- GA122-127----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
In flat pastureland. This roughly subcircular children's burial ground (16m WNW-ESE) is bisected by a WNW-ESE running field boundary. To the N of the field boundary, apart from one/two grave-markers, no visible surface trace survives. To the S its W limits are defined by another field wall running roughly N-S. This section is overgrown with trees and the SSE sector was impenetrable due to thick overgrowth.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.