What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground occupies the southeast quadrant of an old Galway enclosure, a narrow pear-shaped strip where limestone blocks still mark rows of tiny graves. The stones have watched rain, footpaths and forgetting for centuries, preserving the exact shape of children removed before the world had time to notice them.

In SE quadrant of an enclosure (GA073-145----). A pear-shaped unenclosed area (N-S 13m, E-W 6m), the interior of which is occupied by small and large set limestone blocks aligned in rows running N-S. 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

Childrens Burial Ground, Moneyveen is a Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3500–2500 BCE. It is significant as one of the earliest known burial monuments in Ireland and represents an important example of early megalithic architecture.

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