What is recorded here

Dalgin’s children’s burial ground is a tree-filled hollow ringed by an earthen bank in County Galway, locally recognised as a place where young lives were laid to rest. It has no markers, no boundary stones and no obvious chamber, only a shallow circular depression that the land still repeats. The absence of proof does not diminish the claim; it redirects attention to the small size, the separate setting and the patience required to imagine childhood loss without inventing adult ceremony.

In rolling grassland within the grounds of the former Dalgin estate. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a small circular hollow (D c. 20m) and locally regarded as a CBG. What survives is a tree-filled hollow surrounded by an earthen bank with traces of a possible external fosse from E to S. No grave-markers are visible. 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

Children's burial ground, likely prehistoric in date; its significance lies in its local tradition and possible ritual or communal burial practices.

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