What is recorded here

Annaghmore East, a 30m circular pastureland NE of Annagh Lough, was a children's burial ground. The last child was buried there about 1957. Occasional ploughing has erased visible grave markers, leaving only a shallow hollow and a quiet warning about how easily memory and marrow can be smoothed into ordinary soil.

In pastureland, NE of Annagh Lough. An ill-defined circular hollow (D c. 30m) marks the site of this CBG. No grave-markers are visible as the fields has been ploughed occasionally over the past 20 years; the last burial, that of a child, occurred about 1957 (Claffey 1983, 145). 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

A children's burial ground, likely medieval in date, indicating local practices of infant or child interment. Its significance lies in providing insight into past community attitudes towards childhood and mortality in rural settings.

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