Childrens Burial Gd

On S-facing slope. Oval area (25m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.8m) W->E; scarp (H 1.1m) E->W. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. No grave markers noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Children's Burial Gd, Fasagh is a Neolithic burial site, likely a simple inhumation cemetery, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early communal burial practices and child interment in a landscape shaped by modest earthworks.