What is recorded here
Childrens Burial Ground is a ringfort in County Galway, Ireland, holding scattered grave-markers in a west-sector mound. The place is small, displaced and unfinished, which is why it remains memorable.
Within a ringfort (GA016-040----). All that survives are a number of displaced grave-markers, scattered in a clearance mound in W sector of the rigfort.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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