What is recorded here

An Cheathrú Mhór holds a children's burial ground, though no visible marker remains to confirm the shape of that loss. The land may have swallowed infant bodies during famine, fever or war, leaving parents without even a grave to weep beside. What is certain is the category itself: children, death, and a field in County Mayo that stopped belonging only to the living.

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