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Grave Yard GA100-100---- in Graveshill

Children's burial ground
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On a hummock in undulating pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed rectangular area (18m N-S; 15m E-W) within which numerous small set stones mark graves. Just NW of centre is an inscribed slab dated 1796. Quarrying has encroached upon it at SE and W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA100-100

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GA100-100----
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