What is recorded here
Ten unworked stones mark child graves inside a small rectangular border on a Galway hill now scarred by quarrying. The children may have belonged to a nearby farm, a passing family, or a village whose name has vanished. They are still children, and the stones still hold the shape of the place they occupied.
On a hummock which has been quarried away at NE. This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed rectangular area (4m N-S; 3m E-W) within which ten unworked set stones mark graves.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
A Neolithic children's burial ground; its presence indicates early ritual practices and community organization in an otherwise unenclosed setting.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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