What is recorded here
Ballymacooda holds a children's burial ground, though no visible marker remains to tell you where the small bodies went. The land keeps what the world forgot: a room without walls where young life ended before it learned the shape of its own name. You may walk past it thinking you know the county, but knowledge requires losing something first. The dead children are not buried so much as absorbed, waiting inside the soil for an adult honest enough to admit how little he understands.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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