What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground is a low stone platform beside a church in County Mayo, Ireland, where small uninscribed markers still crowd the grass. The density of those markers suggests many young lives ended before record-keeping or personal naming became common. They may have been infants, toddlers or children taken by fever, birth or hunger, and the church may have given their loss a shape worthy of witness.

In a graveyard (MA103-002002-), adjacent to a church (MA103-002001-). A low rectangular platform (17m E-W; 12.4m N−S) abuts the S wall of the church, extending the full E-W length of the wall. It is defined on the E, S and W sides by a grass-covered scarp (H 0.4-0.5m). Small, low uninscribed stone gravemarkers densely cover the platform surface, many set upright in the ground, others apparently lying on the surface. Similar gravemarkers are evident in the interior of the church, particularly numerous on a slightly raised area roughly midway along the N wall. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 October 2022

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