What is recorded here
Refuse choked the grass and hid the stones where children slept, turning a sacred margin into a junk heap. The burial ground waited beneath the waste, small and unenclosed, refusing to be forgotten even when people stopped seeing it.
In undulating grassland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed irregularly shaped area (10m NW-SE; 8.8m NE-SW) within which are several haphazardly placed set stones. On inspection the monument was densely overgrown and was being used as a dump for refuse. (McCaffrey 1952, 201, no. 109)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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