What is recorded here

Grave Yd. is a children's burial ground inside a Galway rath where set stones still mark small graves aligned northeast to southwest. The trapezoidal plot measures seventeen by twelve metres and sits beside a man-made underground passage, suggesting the dead and the living shared one unusual address. Perhaps parents carried infants through that dark tunnel before laying them beside the stones, blending childhood, memory and shadow in a single breath.

Within the interior of a rath (GA098-065----). Numerous set stones indicating graves aligned NE-SW are visible in an unenclosed trapezoidal area (17m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW). A Man-made underground passage (GA098-065002-) lies c. 5m to the NW. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 499) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2017

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3500–2500 BCE. Its alignment and positioning within a rath suggest continuity of sacred landscape use from the Neolithic into the early historic period.

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