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Children's burial ground

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Thirty metres of wet grass and scattered stone mark a children's burial ground inside the surviving south bank of a Galway rath, with a man-made passage lying immediately to the north. Some graves face east to west while others lie without order, as if different generations used the same tender place at different times. The row of small markers still points toward love rather than display, keeping the names absent but the care exact.
Within the interior and on the bank of the surviving S portion of a rath (GA115-022----). The children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed irregular area within which a number of set stones indicate graves. A Man-made underground passage (GA115-022002-) lies immediately to the N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2018

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