What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground is a densely packed rectangular area within a Galway cashel where small slab-lined graves still mark the earth. The site overlaps an older house corner, suggesting children died and were buried beside the family home rather than far away. Set stones align east to west across the grass, preserving the shape of repeated loss in one familiar place.

Within the NE quadrant of a cashel (GA084-041001-) and overlying the NE corner of a house site (GA084-041002-). A rectangular area (25.2m N-S; 22.8m E-W), delimited by a low grassed-over stone wall at S, is densely packed with set stones indicating graves aligned E-W. Four slab-lined graves (L c. 1.5m), marked by both head- and foot-stones, are visible within it, three towards the centre and one in the N sector. (Cody 1989, 238-9, no. 68) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 January 2017

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