What is recorded here

Ballon holds a children's burial ground where unbaptized infants reportedly rested beside a remarkable stone. The enclosure measured twenty-two by seventeen metres and kept its own boundary until men levelled it around 1970. There is no longer a bank or visible mark to point at, only the memory of a small churchyard set apart for the youngest and most vulnerable lives.

According to O’Toole (1933, 235), within a roughly rectangular ‘garden’ (dims. c. 22m NW-SE; c. 17m NE-SW) there is, ‘a small enclosure [CW013-071001-] which is called the “old Church-yard.” It is stated that it was formerly used for the burial of unbaptized children and that within this enclosure there was, ‘a very remarkable stone [CW013-071003-].’ The enclosure was levelled c. 1970 (Seaver and O’Neill, unpublished report, February 2022). According to an ASI field report (September 1988), ‘The stone formerly stood at the centre of a small enclosure defined by an earthen bank about 8m distant from the stone…There are no visible surface traces of the bank’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 21 February 2022

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