Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Bleantasour, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bleantasour
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Foilnagarlagh Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fail na nGarlach
- Coordinates
- 52.19719, -7.66522
- SMR number
- WA013-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the W bank of the NE-SW Colligan River, which turns S at this point. Marked 'Fail na nGarlagh Burial Ground' on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as a small rectangular enclosure (max. dims. c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W). A quarry now occupies the site.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.