What is recorded here

Billew Grave Yard is a children's burial ground on lower hillslopes in County Galway, Ireland, overlooking Lough Mask. Small set stones mark east-west graves within a rough wedge shape, while hawthorn bushes line its north edge. A holy well sits nearby to the northwest, completing a quiet place where young lives were laid to rest beneath the valley sky.

On lower hillslopes, close to head of a valley, overlooking Lough Mask to E. Noted in OS Letters as 'A burial place for children called Billow trees [sic]' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 42), it now consists of an unenclosed and roughly wedge-shaped area (L 12m, Wth 8m) occupied by small set stones, indicating graves oriented E-W. Some head- and foot-stones are visible and a row of hawthorn bushes defines N edge. A holy well (GA025-003001-) lies c. 30m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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