What is recorded here
Ten small flat stones mark a children's burial ground at the heart of a ceremonial enclosure in Boghtaduff, County Roscommon. The narrow rectangular patch holds about ten grave markers, some aligned north to south among bushes and grass. The site is not a distant ruin but a shaped place where young lives were set aside at the centre of a larger ritual landscape.
At the centre of ceremonial enclosure (RO008C020001-). This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 8m E-W; 6m N-S) with some bushes containing about 10 grave-markers (dims c. 0.3m x 0.1m; H 0.2m), some of which form a N-S line.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Neolithic children's burial ground, dating to c. 4000–2500 BCE. Its location within a ceremonial enclosure suggests ritual or communal significance, reflecting early funerary practices and social organization in the Neolithic period.
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