What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground in County Galway is an unenclosed oval of set and recumbent markers where small lives ended before records or adults claimed them. A hawthorn leans over the NE quadrant, dropping white blossom and red berries across stone that has never been fenced or named. The ferns still rise each summer, hiding the graves from casual eyes but not from rain, roots or the patience of children who play near boundary walls. What was lost here was small enough to be forgotten and old enough to belong to the soil.

On a gentle SE-facing slope in an area of pastureland and scrub, immediately to the W of the townland boundary wall. When initially visited in August 1982 this children's burial ground consisted of an unenclosed oval area (7.6m NW-SE; 7.1m NE-SW) in which several set and recumbent grave-markers were visible. A hawthorn tree was growing roughly in its NE quadrant. To its NE the foundations of a modern rectangular house were evident. On re-inspection in September 1991 the burial ground was not visible due to the dense and high growth of ferns . Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 September 2019

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