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Children's burial ground in Brideswell

Children's burial ground

What is recorded here

Yes. A child's burial ground occupies a rath on a Brideswell rise, marked by small cairns still visible inside the ancient earthwork. The distinction is not decorative: these were not adult graves, battlefield graves or ordinary field burials, but children's graves, set within a place already shaped for human life and memory. That is why the site still feels different. The landscape did not accidentally produce markers; people made them, repeated them, and left them where they could be seen.
On a rise in an undulating landscape. Some small cairns in interior of rath (RO048-078001-) mark its use as a Children's Burial Ground. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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