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Burying Ground

Children's burial ground

What is recorded here

No adult body is certain in the stories, but the children's names keep returning. The ground sits inside an old defensive ridge, marked by a collapsed wall and a shallow ditch that once kept strangers out. Quarrying scarred the north edge, and grass has taken back most of the shape. What remains is a small buried chamber of age, waiting to be remembered rather than measured.
Within an enclosure (GA061-096-----). 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: 09 August 2010

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