What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Gd is an oval burial ground on a south-facing slope in County Cork, Ireland. A low earthen bank and shallow scarp enclose twenty metres of bare earth, with no markers left to name the dead. The interior rises slightly on the southern edge, as if someone leveled the hole against the tilt of the hill. Whatever child or children were placed there, the ground keeps them without praise, label or date.

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.

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