What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground is a trapezoidal grave field inside a Galway ringfort where set stones mark east-west child deaths clustered around a western hawthorn. It is not a grand cathedral of sorrow but a small crowded chamber in which a community kept returning to bury its youngest. The hawthorn may have marked the place, shaded it or simply survived because people kept it alive.

Within a ringfort (GA087-021----). A trapezoidal-shaped CBG (E-W 15.8m, N-S 12.5m max.) within which numerous set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. A large quantity of burials are concentrated around a hawthorn tree at W. (Egan 1960, 14) 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

Children's Burial Ground, Cappagh is a medieval burial site associated with a ringfort, likely dating to the early Christian period. Its significance lies in the concentration of burials around a hawthorn tree, suggesting possible ritual or sacred use of the site.

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