What is recorded here
No visible trace remains in Ballynacurragh, County Galway, yet local information places a children's burial ground within the rath. The earth may have swallowed the marks of small hands and short lives, leaving only a quiet absence for later people to imagine.
According to local information there was a children's burial ground within the rath (GA115-006----). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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