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Grave Yard

Children's burial ground

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Small oval graveyard in Grange, County Galway, holds one inscribed child's grave beside many unmarked stones, marking a place where whole communities may have buried their dead across centuries. The contrast between its organised southern row and scattered northern stones suggests different times, different hands, different beliefs sharing one sacred ground. That child's name still stands out, not because the site is grand, but because love and loss can remain visible long after the people who made them have vanished.
In grassland on a gentle W-facing slope, c. 80m S of the td. boundary. An unenclosed subrectangular area (E-W 19.4m, N-S 12.5m) occupied by a dense concentration of small set stones indicating graves oriented E-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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