What is recorded here
No visible surface trace survives, yet the children's burial ground still occupies the heart of the Bullaun ringfort. Local memory calls the interior a lisheen, suggesting the dead did not leave when the living stopped visiting. The absent markers do not erase the purpose; they redirect attention inward, where the smallest lives were still considered large enough to deserve a separate ground.
Within a ringfort (GA057-050----). According to local information, the interior was used as a 'lisheen'. No visible surface trace survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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