Childrens Burial Ground

Within an enclosure (GA087-221----). A poorly preserved unenclosed CBG, now much overgrown. A number of small set stones are concentrated in the centre of the enclosure. These are arranged in rows aligned NNW-SSE, indicating graves oriented roughly E-W. 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

Children's Burial Ground, Urraghry is a Neolithic burial site, likely dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early communal burial practices and social organization in the Neolithic period.