What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground is a traditional burial place for children on a north-west facing farm slope in County Galway. Its trapezoidal outline, about twelve metres east-west and seven metres north-south, still shows through a degraded scarp though field work has buried part of the south-east corner and no grave markers remain visible. The absence of names makes the small size and separate keeping of the place the clearest evidence that children were laid to rest there.

On a NW-facing slope in farmland. A trapezoidal-shaped area (E-W c. 12m, N-S c. 7m) defined by a degraded scarp. No grave-markers are visible, and much of SE corner of the monument has been obscured by field clearance. It is traditionally known as a CBG. 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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