What is recorded here

Mausrevagh holds a children's burial ground on a low Galway hill, preserving small graves beneath an overgrown oval platform. Local memory claims bones surfaced nearby during field work, suggesting the site continued to matter long after formal use ended. The surviving drystone edge and scattered markers resist forgetting, even when maps stopped recording them.

On the summit of a low hill. Marked only on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. An overgrown oval platform (NW-SE 17m, NE-SW 8.2m) defined along SW by a short stretch of drystone walling. Within the interior, a small number of randomly placed set stones indicate graves. According to local information, a number of bones were found during land reclamation in the adjoining field to SW. 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

A Neolithic children's burial ground, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in the rare focus on infant or child burials, offering insight into Neolithic funerary practices and social values.

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