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Children's burial ground in Fearagha

Children's burial ground

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Death came young in Fearagha, so the community stopped wasting strong children on common graves. They carried each small body into the cashel and buried them beside the fort wall, giving the dead a boundary and the living a place to return. The earth swallowed every marker, but the chamber itself remained a room where love refused to let go.
Within a ringfort (GA042-126----). According to local tradition, the interior of the cashel was used as a CBG; 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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