What is recorded here

Infant Burial Gd. in County Mayo, Ireland, is a children's burial ground where the dead lay beneath open sky. The name itself is a wound: infants, not adults, claimed that stretch of earth. Whoever walked past it knew the land had taken the smallest first.

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