What is recorded here
Inside the northern half of a rath, small stones still mark children buried before the world had cameras. The graveyard never grew a wall, yet the stones kept their distance and waited for hands that understood loss. Ballyglass West gave up its youngest without shame, trusting the earth to hold what joy could not keep.
Within N half of a rath (GA113-015----). An unenclosed irregular area within which a number of regularly placed set stones are visible. McCaffrey (1952, 263, no. 45) noted that the N half of the interior had been used as a graveyard.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 October 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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