Childrens Burial Gd.

In level grassland bordered by a stream to S which marks a B. boundary. Linear unenclosed CBG (E-W 40.5m, N-S 3.2m) cut by a field wall near E end. Within it are numerous set stones of sandstone and shale, indicating graves oriented E-W. The 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) depicts it as having been c. 95m in length. 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

Children's Burial Group, likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, characterized by a linear arrangement of set stones in a shallow cut. Its significance lies in providing evidence of communal burial practices and early ritual landscape use in an otherwise unenclosed setting.