What is recorded here

Inside the rath at GA105-055----, a small rectangle of set stones holds upright and recumbent slabs marking children's burials. The measure is tiny, nine and a half metres by six, yet the function is absolute: a separate ground for the youngest dead. Whatever household or clan used it, they drew a line around childhood and treated that line as sacred.

Within a rath (GA105-055----). A rectangular area (L 9.5m; Wth 6m) is defined by a number of set stones. Within it a number of upright and recumbent slabs mark the burials. (McCaffrey 1952, 255, no. 2) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 May 2017

Neolithic passage tomb complex; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Carrowmore is one of the earliest and most significant megalithic cemetery sites in Ireland, containing some of the oldest passage tombs in Europe.

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