What is recorded here

In June 1984 a semicircle of small set stones marked child graves on a Galway rise, but by September 2009 the open ground had become a fenced wound surrounded by poached soil. The children never left; they merely stopped being visible to the people who kept forgetting them.

On top of a rise in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly square area (L/Wth c. 10m); on inspection in June 1984 it was defined by a semicircular unenclosed area (N-S c. 14m) within which a number of small set stones marked graves. On re-inspection in September 2009, it was found that the burial ground had been cordoned off with a wooden post and wire fence and the area immediately outside the fence was heavily poached. 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). The following images have been uploaded: GA006-038----_02.jpg Overall view from N GA006-038----_04.jpg Interior from S Edited by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 22 June 2023

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