What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Gd. marks a small rectangular field in County Mayo where simple stone outlines and flat slabs indicate childhood graves beside a possible church ruin. The place sits in rough pasture near a modern farmshed, with loose quartz and overgrowth softening the edges of plots that have watched seasonal life pass for generations. It is not a grand monument but a quiet boundary between ordinary farming and the vanished small bodies who once belonged to that land.

In rough pasture, with rising ground to N, and farmstead immediately to NE. A modern farm shed stands adjacent to the SW corner of the burial ground. Slightly raised rectangular area (16m N−S; 23m E−W) defined on the N and E by field walls, which border the NE corner of the modern field. When inspected in 1988 the S and W sides were bordered by a line of stones varying in size, but a subsequent inspection in 1998 found that a post and wire fence had been erected on the S and W sides. In the interior, simple uninscribed stone grave markers (Wth 0.3-0.5m; H 0.2-0.3m) can be seen, barely protruding above the ground surface. Small subrectangular burial plots are outlined by stones, with an upright slab at either end, and in some cases slabs lie flat on the interior surface of the plot. Boulders placed on top of smaller stones also appear to mark graves. In 1988 large pieces of quartz were noted lying on top of some graves. Much of the interior is strewn with loose stones and obscured by overgrowth, and trees and overgrowth grow around the perimeter. The ruins of a possible church (MA061-093002-) and a bullaun stone (MA061-093003-) are located 15m to NW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 March 2018

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