Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Knocklawrence,Killeen (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklawrence,Killeen (Kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 52.99210, -8.80418
- SMR number
- GA133A002002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On the S bank of a stream, immediately to the SW of a holy well (GA133A002002-). Known locally as a 'Lisheen', this poorly preserved children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed subrectangular area (25m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) within which a large number of randomly placed set stones indicate graves. According to local information, burial continued up to c. 1950. Incorrectly numbered 3 on the RMP map.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.