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Children's burial ground

Sheeaun (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Sheeaun, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Sheeaun (Kiltartan By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Childrens Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Childrens Burial Gd.
Coordinates
53.04313, -8.86380
SMR number
GA128-076----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 gentle SE-facing slope in an area of pastureland and scrub, immediately to the W of the townland boundary wall. When initially visited in August 1982 this children's burial ground consisted of an unenclosed oval area (7.6m NW-SE; 7.1m NE-SW) in which several set and recumbent grave-markers were visible. A hawthorn tree was growing roughly in its NE quadrant. To its NE the foundations of a modern rectangular house were evident. On re-inspection in September 1991 the burial ground was not visible due to the dense and high growth of ferns .

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 4 September 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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