Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Dooros (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooros (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01867, -8.32871
- SMR number
- GA132-034----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to local information, there is a children's burial ground in the interior of the rath (GA132-012----) and it was in use up to the 1940s. No visible surface trace survives; the interior of the rath is featureless.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.