Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Killafeen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killafeen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.02651, -8.76989
- SMR number
- GA129-020----
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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 low hill in pastureland. Described in the OS Letters as ‘a burying ground for children’ (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 629), it consists of a poorly preserved and densely overgrown D-shaped area (6.5m E-W; 5m N-S) within which a number of small set stones mark graves. A field wall defines is NW limits.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower house1 mi
- Gate lodge1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.