Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Gorteenaniska, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenaniska
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Children Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.10518, -8.69476
- SMR number
- GA123-049----
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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 a rise on the N bank of the Boleyneendorrish River. This children's burial ground is defined by a densely overgrown rectangular area (L 11.2m; Wth 8.7m) which is enclosed by a drystone wall at N, a row of stones at W and a natural scarp at S. A single boulder marks the E side. Within the interior a number of set stones, most of which have collapsed, mark graves.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Boundary mound1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.