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Childrens Burial Ground

Children's burial ground

What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground occupies the east half of a Galway cashel, a raised rectangle twenty metres long where worked stones still mark tiny graves. The fact that adults shaped stone for children suggests love, not indifference. Whatever else the land has buried, this corner was set apart for the smallest lives.
Within the E half of a cashel (GA096-011----). Raised rectangular area (20.1m NE-SW; 11.7m NW-SE) within which burials are marked by recumbent or upright stones. Some of the stones are squared off and worked. (McCaffrey 1952, 149, no. 59). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

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