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Childrens Burial Ground

Children's burial ground

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Childrens Burial Ground occupies a narrow rectangular patch inside a Galway rath, marked by a collapsed drystone wall and scattered small set stones. It is not a grand cathedral or polished museum display, but a forgotten edge of human cruelty and love: children died, others carried them somewhere separate, and stones were set to keep that place visible. The absence of pattern does not diminish it; it refuses spectacle.
Within the interior of a rath (GA1904-217----). This rectangular children's burial ground (20m N-S; 9.9m E-W) is defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall (H 0.2-0.3m; Wth 0.9-1m). Within it numerous small set stones are visible; no consistent alignment or pattern is evident. (McCaffrey 1952, 244, no. 99) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 July 2019

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