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Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused)

Children's burial ground

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Childrens Burial Gd. (Disused) is a wedge of low-lying grassland in County Galway where recumbent stones still mark rows of graves running from NW to SE. Local information places the last burial around 1903, leaving the site quiet but not empty of memory. A degraded scarp with faint stone-facing traces its southern edge, while a bullaun stone sits visible in the north-west half. The place holds the kind of loss that does not argue; it waits beneath grass and rain for someone to remember why small graves were kept separate.
In low-lying grassland. This children's burial ground consists of a wedge-shape area (L 20m; Wth 8.5m) defined by a degraded scarp with traces of stone-facing at S. Mainly recumbent stones mark graves running in rows from NW to SE. According to local information the last burial took place c. 1903. A bullaun stone (GA117-092001-) is visible in the NW half. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 September 2019
Wedge tomb; likely dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. The site represents a specialized burial area for children, indicating social or ritual practices related to childhood in prehistoric communities.

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