What is recorded here

Graveyard in Kilmore (killian By.) stands on a natural grass mound above bogland, holding scattered stones that time has knocked flat. During a child burial about twenty-five years ago, a digger struck an adult skeleton already waiting in the dark earth. The dead place may have been busy long before the living stopped remembering it.

On a natural mound in grassland overlooking bogland to W and E. It comprises an overgrown unenclosed area, irregular in plan (E-W c. 20m), within which are a number of randomly placed set stones, most now lying recumbent. According to local information, a man who helped bury a child here about 25 years ago uncovered the skeleton of an adult during the process. The curving scarp-like feature depicted on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1926) immediately to W appears wholly natural. Possibly a CBG. 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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