What is recorded here
No visible trace survives, but local information points to a children's burial ground within the Liss ringfort. The absence of marks does not erase the shape of the loss: small bodies, buried beside a defended place, likely during times when childhood ended too often. The ringfort stands as a boundary for people, yet the buried children belong to the wider life that lived around it. To walk past the site is to enter a quiet room where joy, fear and love were carried by hands now forgotten.
Within a ringfort (GA058-069----). According to local information, there was a CBG here. 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
Children's burial ground, likely medieval in date; associated with a ringfort, indicating a possible settlement or ceremonial use. Its significance lies in providing evidence of burial practices and social structure in a rural or peripheral settlement context.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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