What is recorded here

Fál Aonaosa is a children's burial ground in County Donegal, Ireland. The rectangular platform stretches thirty metres east-west and eight metres north-south, rising seventy to eighty centimetres above the low-lying ground. Grass and forgotten field stones have smothered the edges, but the shape remains clear enough to suggest deliberate making rather than natural rise. Children may have been laid to rest here while adults watched the horizon, trusting the earth to keep what they could not carry further.

Marked as a Calluragh on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site consists of a rectangular platform 30m E-W and 8m N-S. It averages .7m-.8m in height. Some field clearance has been piled in places and it is heavily overgrown. It is situated in low-lying level ground in reasonably good land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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