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Children's burial ground in Cappagh Beg

Children's burial ground

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Cappagh Beg, County Galway, may be a children's burial ground. The pear-shaped area holds set stones aligned like small graves on an east-facing slope. If so, the fields above a tragic place become a room where adult care continues across centuries.
On an E-facing slope in gently undulating pastureland. This burial ground consists of an unenclosed pear-shaped area (18.8m ESE-WNW; 12.3m NNE-SSW) within which a number of set stones are aligned NNE-SSW, indicating graves aligned WNW-ESE. It may be a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 January 2020

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