Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Rinrush, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinrush
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.10281, -8.80075
- SMR number
- GA123-092----
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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
Some 80m to the NW of a rath (GA123-092----). This children's burial ground is marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a rectangular unenclosed area (c. 20m NW-SE; c. 15m E-W). An arc of loose stones from NW to NNE may indicate its N extent. Within it one/two possible grave-markers are visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.