What is recorded here
Children died young in Tullybrattan and were buried beside the cashel, their names lost but their presence kept alive in local memory. Two stones still mark the edge of that forgotten ground, one perhaps pulled from a doorway that no longer stands. The land has taken back most of the proof, yet the shape of the tragedy remains clear enough to touch.
In the W sector of a cashel (GA128-087----). Known locally as a children's burial ground; apart from two set stones in the fosse, no visible surface trace survives. One of the stones is worked and may be a jambstone from a doorway - possibly from the house that is shown here on the 1938 edition of the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 April 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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