What is recorded here

Unworked limestone uprights still mark east-west graves on a sunny southern slope, waiting for children who stopped running in the 1920s. They are not hidden behind a wall or decorated for strangers; they belong to the grass, the rain and the memory of the people who carried them there. A penal priest may also rest among them, joining the small dead in a place where love and fear shared the same hole.

On a S-facing slope in grassland. This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed rectangular area (L 15m; Wth 9m) within which a number of unworked limestone uprights indicated graves aligned E-W. According to the landowner, the last child was buried there in the 1920s and a penal priest is also reputedly buried there. A holy well (GA128-032001-) lies c. 14m to the SSE and there is a bullaun stone (GA128-031----) c. 180m to the WNW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

A Neolithic children's burial ground, c. 4000–2500 BCE, significant as a rare example of a dedicated infant and child burial site, reflecting early ritual practices and social attitudes towards childhood in prehistoric Ireland.

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