What is recorded here

Sellerna Bay still receives children after death. The grassy dune south of the water holds small boulders, including one bright quartz stone beside graves marked in rectangle. For decades the community carried its dead children across that boundary and laid them beneath the slope. The sea did not refuse them. It accepted them into its own depth, where measurement stops and love continues without witness.

On inland slope of a grassy dune to S of Sellerna Bay and c. 25m E of the stream which marks the td. boundary. A small unenclosed area (c. 28m by c. 18m) covered by small boulders, including one of quartz, some of which outline rectangular graves. In use up to 30 years ago (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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