Children's burial ground in Cloontubbrid (gallen By.)

Cloontubbrid holds a children's burial ground, though no further detail has emerged about when it was used or who laid its smallest occupants to rest. That absence does not diminish the place; it refuses to turn childhood death into a tidy historical fact. The field may have belonged to a family, a parish or a passing trade route, and the children may have died in birth, fever or ordinary infant frailty. To walk past it is to remember that adulthood often discovers love through loss, while children never learn the shape of their own ending.