Grave Yd

Grave Yd stands on the west side of the Bearna Quay road in County Galway, a rectangular enclosure roughly forty-five by thirty metres that later stretched westward. It is a quiet holder of dead people, perhaps marked by stones now lost or buried under grass, while the living pass beside it on the byroad. The graveyard has no famous name or dramatic event attached, but it keeps the ordinary truth that death belongs everywhere, even in small western towns where the road marks the boundary between the living and the dead.