What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground is a quiet rectangle on an esker ridge in County Galway, marked by two rows of small stones laid east to west. It is the kind of place where love and loss collide, for children were set aside together rather than scattered through adult graves. The field wall and faint boundary suggest people kept returning, tending the edge and remembering the small bodies within.

On E slope of an esker ridge. As quare area (L/Wth c. 14m) with traces of a possible enclosing wall at SW; a modern field wall forms NW boundary. Within the interior, tow rows of small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 65) 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 possible Neolithic or early Bronze Age children's burial ground, indicated by small set stones in rows. Its significance lies in the rare evidence of dedicated infant or child burials in a prehistoric context.

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