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Burial in Newtown (ballymoe By.)

Burial

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No marker, no mound, no memory. Only the plough biting through soil and striking bone. The dead lie shallow beneath pasture, waiting for steel to remember them.
On an E-facing slope in pastureland. According to local information, a number of burials have been revealed from time to time at this location during ploughing. Some of the burials are said to have been stone-lined and not more than 0.3m below the ground surface. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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