What is recorded here
Children died young in County Galway and their graves still mark the west half of a cashel. Set stones align east to west across an open strip thirty metres long, waiting for rain and footsteps. One eighteenth-century marker names the O'Daly's of Dunsandle, tying a local family to that quiet ground. The children are gone, but their shapes remain in the layout, small and repeated like a rhythm forgotten by adults.
Within the W half of a cashel (GA097-141001-). This children's burial ground is defined by an irregular unenclosed area (30m N-S; 15m E-W) within which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. One inscribed 18th-C grave-marker is dedicated to the O'Daly's of nearby Dunsandle. (McCaffrey 1952, 170, no. 13)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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