What is recorded here
No wall, no gate, no line drawn around it. Only small stones scattered like a child's marbles dropped in haste, marking deaths the adults never spoke of. The cashel keeps its own counsel above them, but beneath is a different ledger: every lost infant a stone, every forgotten name a shadow under the grass.
Within the S sector of a cashel (GA104-103----). This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed irregular area in which set stones and flat grave-markers are haphazardly arranged. (McCaffrey 1952, 224, no. 128; O'Doherty 1985, 6)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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