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Childrens Burial Ground

Children's burial ground

What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground occupies the southeast quadrant of a Galway ringfort, where grass-covered stones still mark small graves aligned east to west. The bank and a collapsed wall enclose an irregular space barely eighteen metres long, preserving a chamber where infant bodies once lay beneath open sky. There is no grand monument to soften the loss, only scattered stones and quiet soil holding the forgotten young.
In SE quadrant of a ringfort (GA057-120----). An irregularly shaped area (NE-SW 18m, NNW-SSE 12.5m) enclosed by the bank of the enclosure from NE to SSW and by a collapsed grass-covered stone wall from NW to NE. Within the interior and on the bank, set stones of various shapes and sizes, some grass-covered, indicate graves, most of which are oriented ENE-WSW. 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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