What is recorded here

Infants Burial Gd. is a children's burial ground on a prominent Mayo hill, marked by a grass-covered wedge of stones that reached twenty-eight metres before people quarried away its broad northern end. The missing stones may have built nearby walls or roads, pulling child remains from their quiet summit into ordinary human use. What remains is a low, blurred edge where pasture meets memory, inviting wonder about the babies laid there and the hands that took their stones elsewhere.

In pasture, located close to the summit of a prominent hill. Poorly-defined, largely grass-covered wedge-shaped cairn (28.3m NNW-SSE; 11m ENE-WSW; max H 1.2m) of small and medium sized stones. A considerable portion of the broad N end of the cairn has been quarried away. There is an enclosure (MA014-062002-) 10m to N. Compiled by: Paddy O'Donovan and Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 November 2017

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its location on a prominent hill suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, typical of such tombs in the landscape.

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