What is recorded here

An L-shaped children's burial ground holds ten uninscribed limestone markers in a disused gravel pit near the Ballyedmond boundary. The last child may have been laid to rest there four decades ago, leaving the stones exposed and the memory unfinished.

In a disused gravel pit close to td. boundary. Poorly preserved unenclosed L-shaped area (E-W 30m, N-S 1.5m max.). Known locally as a 'lios', it contains some ten uninscribed limestone grave-markers aligned N-S and set c. 0.8m apart. According to local information, the last burial took place c. 45 years ago. 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 Neolithic or early Bronze Age lios (ringfort or enclosure) with possible funerary function; its significance lies in the presence of uninscribed grave-markers, suggesting a local tradition of burial commemoration.

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