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Children's burial ground in Mullagh More

Children's burial ground

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Mullagh More holds a D-shaped children's burial ground twenty-two metres long, its shallow fosse and straight western boundary marking a place where young lives ended before records named them. Overgrown grave-markers cluster toward the south-west, half-swallowed by pasture, inviting wonder about the families who carried small bodies across undulating fields and buried them without monuments grand enough for pride. The land keeps what memory forgot: a neighbourhood of childhood loss, quiet beneath grass, waiting for someone to walk the perimeter and imagine the weight of each unmarked year.
In undulating pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of a D-shaped area (L 22m) defined by a shallow fosse; a roughly N-S running field boundary forms the straight W side. Within the interior sporadic overgrown grave-markers are visible, with the main concentration occurring in the SW sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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