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Burial ground in Ballynona North

Burial ground
Burial ground in Ballynona North
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Leaba na Linne hides two children's burial grounds inside a commercial forestry, including a D-shaped patch thirty metres across where heavy grass still sways over forgotten small bodies. The trees were planted around the memory instead of covering it, leaving a rough green hole in the wood where children may have slept before the forest claimed the wider field.
Noted in report by Land Purcell Archaeology (30th January 2012, re: planning reference no 10/08418) identified this as one of two 'unplanted areas in the forestry known as children's burial grounds ... known as Leaba na Linne'. This is 'Area A' described as 'a D-shaped unplanted area (30m x 30m) of rough, undulating ground covered with a thick growth of heavy grass. There are no features, such as grave-markers, indicating burials and there was no evidence for an enclosing element.'

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