Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Knockroe (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.08245, -8.74592
- SMR number
- GA123-060----
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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 ridge in grassland. This children's burial ground consists of a subtriangular area (13m E-W; 11m N-S) which is defined along the E side by an earthen bank and by field walls along the S and NW sides. Within the interior numerous small stones mark graves.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.