Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Caherbroder, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherbroder
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03702, -8.83399
- SMR number
- GA128-032001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope in grassland. This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed rectangular area (L 15m; Wth 9m) within which a number of unworked limestone uprights indicated graves aligned E-W. According to the landowner, the last child was buried there in the 1920s and a penal priest is also reputedly buried there. A holy well (GA128-032001-) lies c. 14m to the SSE and there is a bullaun stone (GA128-031----) c. 180m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.