What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground in County Galway holds child deaths on low-lying ground near the Clare River. Its rectangular grassy edge and scattered undressed stones mark rows where small bodies were laid out, while later field-clearance stones lie dumped at one corner. The place is not decorative; it is a local record of young lives taken before they could be remembered as adults.

On low-lying ground, c. 250m to W of the Clare River. A rectangular area (N-S 32m, E-W 26m) defined on all sides by a gentle scarp edge. Irregular undressed stones, arranged in a N-S linear fashion, now mainly grassed over, mark the burials. Field-clearance stones are dumped on NE corner of the monument. 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 rectangular Neolithic burial enclosure, likely dating to the Early to Middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE), characterized by linear stone settings; such sites are significant for understanding communal burial practices and social organization in early Irish prehistory.

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