What is recorded here

Mullaghmore South holds a children's burial ground where small stones still mark northwest graves inside a low earth bank. The hollow has lost much of its shape, but the narrow rectangle and tilted markers preserve the fact that young bodies were laid together beside ordinary farmland. That is why the place feels sudden and tender: a field can also be a chamber for the smallest lives.

In level farmland within a hollow. Poorly preserved rectangular area (N-S 13m, E-W 9.5m) delimited by a low bank of earth and stone on N and S sides and elsewhere by a scarp. Within it, a number of a small set stones indicate graves oriented NW-SE. (Claffey 1983, 160) 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

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