What is recorded here

Bogland west of Loch an Iarainn still holds a children's burial ground on an oval hillock, where two or three shallow rectangular graves lie beside a thorn tree and a large limestone erratic marks the north-west end. The small stones outline little chambers for infants rather than grand tombs for adults, suggesting a community set aside even in harsh terrain. What is missing is as telling as what remains: no monument, no broad road, no great hall, only a low ridge of earth and a few placed stones. That restraint is what makes the site striking. It preserves the fact that children died, that they were buried, and that the land remembered them without pride or display.

On an oval hillock in bogland NW of Loch an Iarainn. All that is visible of this CBG, correctly Cnocán na bPáistí are some small stones outlining two to three rectangular graves beside a thorntree. There is a large limestone erratic at NW end of the hillock (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Infants' Burial Ground (CBG), likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in the rare survival of a site associated with infant or child burials, offering insight into ancient funerary practices and social attitudes towards childhood.

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