Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Sheeaun (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.