What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground is a D-shaped raised area in County Galway farmland where small limestone grave-markers still align north-south beside a road. Mr Fitzsimmons enclosed the place and his name remains cut into a large slab at the east edge. The west half has lost its markers, leaving a gap where small lives once lay hidden beneath ordinary soil.

On a slight rise in undulating farmland, on S boundary of td., immediately to N of road. A D-shaped raised area (E-W 27m, N-S 16m, H 1m) within E half of which numerous small limestone grave-markers are visible, aligned N-S. To NW of centre lies a pile of stones (H 1.5m), and to E a large inscribed stone slab dedicated to Mr Fitzsimmons who 'enclosed this small burial place.' No grave-markers are visible in W half of the monument. 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 Neolithic children's burial ground, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of numerous small limestone grave-markers, indicating a specialized burial practice for children during the Neolithic period.

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