What is recorded here

Childrens Burial Ground is a poorly preserved rectangular area in County Galway grassland, marked by overgrown stones aligned in rows and a low mound at the east edge. The graves face east-west, suggesting children were laid to rest with heads west and feet east, a orientation still visible beneath the grass. The southern scarp is the last clear boundary of the enclosure, while the rest has faded into the field. What remains is small, quiet and exact enough to show that this was a place set apart for the young dead.

In a prominent location in grassland. A very poorly preserved rectangular area (E-W 12.5m, N-S 11.2m) defined by a scarp at S; elsewhere no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives. Several overgrown set stones are visible, aligned in N-S rows, indicating graves oriented E-W. A low stony mound (L 2.8m, Wth 1.7m) lies at E and is probably the result of field clearacne. 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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