What is recorded here

Childrens Burying Ground in County Galway, Ireland holds small set stones marking graves oriented SE-NW across thirty metres of open farmland. The western edge has surrendered some markers to field clearance, yet the dense alignment still distinguishes childhood from adult death. No wall surrounds the place, but the repeated shape of the stones draws a boundary the land itself remembers.

On a slight rise in level farmland. An unenclosed irregularly shaped area (N-S 30m, E-W 13.5m) occupied by a dense concentration of small set stones, indicating graves oriented SE-NW. In W sector, many of the graves are obscured by field clearance. 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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