What is recorded here
No visible mark remains inside the Cloonmweelaun ringfort, yet local memory places children's burials beneath its quiet earth. The last such burial happened around a century ago, leaving no stone, mound or boundary for the living to point at. What is missing is not absence but invisibility: small bodies returned to ground that never needed display.
Within a ringfort (GA029-059----). According to local information, children were buried in the interior of the rath. The last burial took place c. 100 years ago. 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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