What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground in County Galway holds a dense oval of small moss-covered markers aligned east-west on reclaimed pasture. The stones remain plain and unenclosed, marking young lives lost before records or ritual gave them shape.

On reclaimed level pastureland. An unenclosed oval area (E-W 30m, N-S 24.25m) within which a fairly dense concentration of small plain moss-covered, flat and upright, grave-markers are visible aligned E-W. 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

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