What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground holds rows of small stones on a west-facing slope near Castleblakeney, marking graves laid east to west without walls or boundaries. The flat grassland and old trackway suggest a place where families carried young bodies along a familiar path, then stood beside them in open air. Even now the modest size of the stones and the absence of enclosure make the site feel intimate, as if childhood death belonged to the village rather than a distant church.

On a W-facing slope in flat grassland, c. 700m W of the village of Castleblakeney and c. 50m S of the td. boundary. An unenclosed rectangular area (N-S 26.5m, E-W 12m) within which numerous small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. To W of the CBG, an old trackway runs NE-SW. 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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