What is recorded here
On a rise in rolling pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed oval area (L 11m; Wth 9.3m) within which a number of randomly placed set stones mark graves. A thorn bush is growing in it and a number of field-clearance boulders are scattered within it. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 474)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 September 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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