Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Drum (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drum (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisserglass Childrens Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisserglass Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.09882, -8.48267
- SMR number
- GA125-054----
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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 SE-facing slope in pastureland. This children's burial ground is defined by a subrectangular platform (13m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) which is overgrown with bushes and nettles. Small set stones mark graves. (O'Flanagan 1927, II, 211)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.