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Children's burial ground in Cogaula

Children's burial ground

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Twenty metres of hollow earth sits north of the field boundary in Cogaula, pretending to be a disused gravel pit while local memory insists it holds children. No cross, stone or marker breaks the grass, leaving the dead invisible and the living guessing about what darkness swallowed. The boy who ran there at noon may have played in a grave, not a pit, and joy in that chamber becomes knife-edge because love and loss share the same floor.
In an area of pastureland and exposed bogland, immediately to the N of a NW-SE running field boundary. A hollow (diam. c. 20m), which appears to be a disused gravel pit, is known locally as a children’s burial ground. No grave-markers are visible (information from B. Doherty, Galway Community Archaeologist). The following image has been uploaded: GA031-070----.pdf View from S Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 May 2022

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