What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Gd. is a children's burial ground in County Galway, Ireland. Most of the enclosure has been levelled, leaving only displaced grave-markers scattered across field-clearance rubble. The loss is sudden and visible: markers once set for small lives now lie broken among stone and soil, waiting for someone to remember what the land forgot.

Within an enclosure (GA017-127----), most of which appears to have been recently levelled. All that survives of the CBG are displaced grave-markers which lie scattered on field-clearance rubble. (Neary 1914, 116, no. 72). 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

A Children's Burial Group (CBG), likely dating to the Early Christian period, associated with a now largely destroyed enclosure; its significance lies in providing evidence of early Christian burial practices and landscape use in the region.

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