What is recorded here

Indicated is a children's burial ground in County Galway, Ireland. The site holds small granite uprights marking east-west graves on a raised platform beside the Galway-Oughterard road. It is a quiet place where young lives ended before records or memory could carry them far.

In undulating farmland to N of Galway-Oughterard road and c. 50m E of the td. boundary. A roughly subrectangular platform (NW-SE c. 20m, H c. 2m), enclosed by a modern collapsed drystone wall. Many small granite uprights are visible in the interior, indicating graves oriented E-W (info. GBCAS Files). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Portal dolmen; likely Neolithic in origin. Its small granite uprights and subrectangular platform suggest a ritual or funerary function, typical of megalithic traditions in western Ireland.

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