Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Moyglass, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyglass
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockaunnagall Childrens Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockaunnagall Childrens Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.07686, -8.46971
- SMR number
- GA125-136----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in undulating pastureland. This rectangular children's burial ground (19.5m N-S; 12m E-W) is defined by an overgrown bank from E to S and by a slight scarp at W. Within the interior a grave-markers, aligned E-W, are visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.