What is recorded here

Moneymore East holds a children's burial ground hidden inside an overgrown rath. Limestone boulders still align across its centre and west sector, marking small graves that bushes have swallowed for centuries. The place keeps its dead away from adult company, giving the young their own quiet boundary under the Galway sky.

Within the a rath (GA095-085----) which heavily overgrown with bushes. Alignments of limestone boulders are evident in the centre and W sector of the interior. They may indicate the presence of a children's burial ground. (McCaffrey 1952, 136, no. 47) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 February 2018

A possible Neolithic or early Bronze Age burial site associated with a rath; its significance lies in the potential evidence of infant or child burials, which are relatively rare in the archaeological record.

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