What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Gd. holds a narrow rectangular strip of earth where small graves align beneath a degraded scarp and field wall. The northern sector still buries its markers under rubble and boulders, yet the surviving stones preserve the direction of childhood loss within an early ecclesiastical enclosure.

Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA084-085003-). A roughly rectangular area (NE-SW < 24.8m, NW-SE < 9.5m) defined by a degraded scarp along SE, SW and NW sides, and by a field wall along NE side. Within the interior are a number of set stones indicating graves oriented NE-SW. Much of N sector is covered with rubble and boulders which obscure the grave-markers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Early Christian burial site, 6th–9th century AD. Associated with a monastic settlement, it reflects the religious and funerary practices of the period in the Irish countryside.

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