What is recorded here

Creig na Leanbh is a children's burial ground on Inis Meáin, marked by small limestone uprights scattered across a square patch of rock and scrub. The stones stand without a wall or border, as if the children belonged to the land rather than the land belonging to them. They may have been babies, toddlers or young children taken before they could be named in stories, but the community still gave them a place separate from ordinary forgetfulness.

In an area of rock outcrop and scrub close to the boundary between subdivisions of Baile an Lisín and Móinín na Ruaige, Inis Meáin. Known locally as Creig na Leanbh (Robinson 1980), it consists of an unenclosed, almost square area (L/Wth c. 25m) within which many small limestone uprights are visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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