GRAVEYARD: SLAGHTATAGGART in Crushybracken

Slaghtataggart is a graveyard in Crushybracken, County Antrim, where the dead have waited beside the living since before anyone wrote the date down. The name itself sounds like a knife dragging through grass, fitting for a place that keeps its age hidden instead of displaying it like a trophy. People may have laid children, lovers or thieves into that soil while others forgot the names the same night. The stones are gone or never stood tall enough to notice, leaving only the shape of loss behind.