Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Derrykeel, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrykeel
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.04008, -8.70555
- SMR number
- GA129-013----
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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
In pastureland on the N shoulder of a low hill. This well-preserved roughly D-shaped children's burial ground (18m E-W; 14.5m N-S) is unenclosed apart from an ENE-WSW running field boundary which forms its N limits. Numerous small set stones, marking graves, run in roughly N-S rows. There is also a large quantity of loose stones. One large inscribed slab (H 1.09m; Wth 0.51m) is dedicated to two infants of the Peirse family who died 1806 and 1807. According to local information, the burial ground was in use up to c. 1962.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.