What is recorded here
Grave Yard in Grange, County Galway, is a children's burial ground where a low bank encloses modest stones on a rise above pastureland. That restriction turns the place into a room for lost young lives, while the aligned stones still point toward the rising sun. The surrounding town may have forgotten the names, but the ground kept the shape of the departed and waited for someone to remember what the stones had stopped repeating.
On a rise in undulating pastureland. This subrectangular burial ground (c. 28m WNW-ESE; c. 16m N-S) is defined on all sides by a low bank. According to local information, it was used for the burial children. Within the interior a number of set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. (O'Flanagan 1927, II, 81)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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